Lois E. Baraba was born to Levi and Dorothy (Neff) Chandler in Crawford County, Missouri on March 23, 1939 and passed away on Friday, October 16, 2015. Lois started elementary school in Berryman, MO and graduated from Rock Spring Elementary  School. She graduated from Roosevelt High School in St. Lous, MO in 1956 and attended Washington University night school for several years. At the age of sixteen, Lois started working at the Woolworth store at Grand and Lindell Blvd. in St. Louis until she graduated from high school and several years at an insurance company. She spent twenty years with Diamond Shamrock, a chemical company in Clayton, MO. She married Matt Baraba, who immigrated from Dalmatia, Yugoslavia in 1966. They did not have children of their own, but only a step-daughter Snjezana Borovic, who came to live with them from Yugoslavia at the age of nine. Lois and Matt started their own company "Baraba Sewer Service" in 1968 while she was working at Diamond Shamrock. After Diamond Shamrock relocated to Texas, she focused her time on their business, Baraba Sewer Service. She became the first woman to get her Drainlayers license and second in the entire state of Missouri. She and her husband were in business for 44 years until Matt passed away in 2012. She was preceded in death by her husband, Matt Baraba; parents, Levi and Dorothy  (nee Neff) Chandler; brother, Marvin Chandler; sister, Zeldia (Marvin) Godbey and Della (Tom Short) Bourbon;  brother-in-law, Rocky Valle; and son-in-law, Anto G. Borovic. She is survived by her step-daughter, Snjezana "Susan" (Daniel Zervas) Borovic; grandchildren, Tomislav, Marko, Kristina, Mandee (Greg), Mindee (Miles), Zachory and Melodee; great-grandchildren, Maci and Henry; brothers, Noel (Pat) Chandler of St. James, MO and Joseph Chandler of Royce City, TX; husband, Raymond Bourbon; sister, Geraldine Valle; brother-in-law, Raymond Bourbon; other relatives and friends. Visitation was held from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 23, 2015 at the Kutis South County Chapel in Mehlville, MO. The Family received friends from 10:00 until service time Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Britton-Bennett Funeral Home in Steelville, MO. Funeral services were held at 12:00 Noon on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Britton-Bennett Funeral Home in Steelville, MO. Committal prayer and interment were in the Shoal Creek Cemetery, Berryman, MO. The Family was served by the Britton-Bennett Funeral Home of Steelville, MO.