Lori Shuster, aka Loretta Good, 91, died at home on Aug. 30, 2025.

Lori’s first career was modeling in Charleston, West Virginia. Then she opened her own modeling school and made her way to the showroom floor of Elizabeth Arden in New York City.

Despite that early glamourous career, Lori’s proudest career choice was getting a job at the University of Minnesota and working her way up to become the senior administrative director of the Department of Family Practice in the Medical School. She said that working at the U for 30 years was the college education she never got to have.

Lori raised her daughters next to St. Anthony Park Elementary School, and was involved in the SAP Community Gardens, including plantings at the library.

Lori spent countless hours researching family history and writing stories from memories of growing up on a farm in the 1930s to 1950s in West Virginia.

Lori leaves behind her love of nature, gardens, hosting fancy dinners, good home cooking, homegrown tomatoes, baking, cooked apples, current events, telling funny stories, reading, writing, researching and always learning until the end.

A private memorial will be planned for a later date.

Memorials can be made to the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota at
makingagift.umn.edu/give/fund.html?id=1597085152154.