Lores Teters, a longtime member of the Hereford community, passed away peacefully on February 25, 2022, in Farmington, New Mexico at the age of 92. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and teacher.
She was born to Thomas and Mabel Watson. She was raised on a dairy farm in Lenexa, Kansas, where her lifelong love of animals began. She graduated from Shawnee Mission High School, where she played clarinet in the marching band. In 1950, she married Gene Teters, a soldier in the United States Army. For nearly 30 years their family followed military life across the country, living in Wisconsin, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Germany before eventually settling in Hereford, where they built their home and community.
While raising her children, she followed in her mother’s footsteps and earned a degree in education from West Texas State University. She spent many years teaching at Bluebonnet Elementary School in Hereford. As a reading teacher and later a second and fourth grade teacher, she proudly helped many local children learn to read. Her work in the classroom left a lasting impact on generations of Hereford students and families.
She was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church in Hereford and sang in the church choir for more than three decades.
She was devoted to her husband, children and grandchildren and rarely missed a performance, game, recital or milestone. Her family brought her great joy.
She will be remembered for her kindness, her faith, her love of animals, her singing voice and her signature red hair, which she wore proudly well into her 80s.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gene Teters; her parents, Mabel and Thomas Watson; her brother, John Watson; and her nephew, Bruce Watson.
She was survived by her children, John Teters and his wife Cora Teters, and Lorie Teters Thomson and her husband Rockie Thomson; her grandchildren, Jared Thomson, Camille Thomson, Tyler Teters and Tiffany Teters Holbrook; her nephew Blake Watson and her niece Sandra Watson; and her great-grandchildren Stone Larsen, Calvin Holbrook and Thomas Holbrook.
After more than 40 years in Hereford, she will be remembered by many former students, neighbors and friends whose lives she touched through her teaching, her church, and her kindness. To many in the community, she will always be remembered simply as one of the sweetest ladies in Hereford.
A Celebration of Life Service honoring Lores Teters (and her grandson Tyler Teters) will be held on Friday, March 27, 2026, at 2:00 PM at Hereford Church of the Nazarene with Pastor Ted Taylor officiating. Burial of Cremains will follow at West Park Cemetery under the personal care and direction of Mendez and Mullins Family Funeral Home.