Lana Dianne Voss
1949 - 2020
Lana Dianne Voss, 70, died on December
23, 2020, at Presbyterian Manor in Newton, Kansas. She was born on
December 28, 1949, in Sterling, Kansas to William A. Voss and Lillie
Carol Shannon. Lana graduated from Kingman High School in 1967, and
attended Emporia State University where she received a Bachelor of
Arts in English and a Masters Degree in Reading. She taught in the
Kansas public schools for five years before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma
in 1981. Ms. Voss served as Librarian at Page Memorial Library in
Sand Springs, Oklahoma for ten years from 1983-1993. She was also
very active in the Sand Springs community as part of the Main Street
Association. After earning a Master of Library and Information
Studies from Oklahoma University in 1993, she began working in the
children's department at Tulsa Central Library, eventually becoming
Manager of the department in 2010. Following a diagnosis of
early-onset Alzheimer's disease, she retired from the Tulsa
City-County Library in 2012. Lana remained in the Tulsa area until
2015, when she moved to the Presbyterian Manor in Newton, Kansas.
Lana was married to Jeffrey Kim McCosh
on April 16, 1978 in Emporia, Kansas. They were divorced in 1984. She
is survived by one son, Austin Voss McCosh, of Emporia KS; two
sisters, Dixie (Bob) Anders of Forsythe MO, and Vickie (David) Kaplan
of Arlington VA; one nephew, Sean (Rebecca) Anders of Loveland CO;
and her many aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends.
Her ashes will be scattered in
accordance with her son's wishes. A monument dedicated to her memory
has been placed in the cemetery at Plainville, Kansas. The family
suggests memorials to the following: Friends of the Tulsa Library
(TulsaLibrary.org/Friends); the Woody Guthrie Center of Tulsa OK
(WoodyGuthrieCenter.org); Newton Presbyterian Manor
(giving.presbyterianmanors.org); or Heart and Soul Hospice
(HeartAndSoulHospice.org).
