Maria Gerlind Johanna Katharina Lossow Dean, 95, passed away Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, at Lavender Ridge in Olney, Illinois.
Gerlind was born in Breslau, Germany, the daughter of Architect Wilhelm Hermann Gustav Lossow and Maria Hertha Lucie Gabriele Lossow, Countess von Salburg of Altenhof, Austria. She studied agriculture in Austria, and after World War II worked as a translator for the armed forces where she met Lt. Kenneth Wayne Jones. They married in Germany and moved to the Chicago area, where they later welcomed a daughter, Barbara.