Lorna Owens Francis died April 9 in Castroville. She was an instructor in what is now the College of Visual Arts and Design from 1969 to 1976. Francis traveled in India and Europe and lived in Sumatra from 1956 to 1959, where her work was displayed in a U.S. Department of State exhibit. She was a member of the Denton Handweavers Guild, Dallas Craftsman Guild, Southwestern Watercolor Society, Texas Watercolor Society and Texas Association of College Teachers. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and taught there and at Texas Woman’s University, San Antonio College, St. Mary’s Hall, Our Lady of the Lake University and Laredo Community College. She and her husband restored the 1846 Wieser House in Castroville, converting the barn into an art studio, and Francis made pen and ink drawings of the many historic buildings there.