Darleen Marie (Hosking) Moscal, 80, died from complications due to lung cancer on Thursday, October 20, 2016.

Darleen was born on September 4, 1936 in St. Louis, MO to Charles and Mildred (Schaedler) Hosking and lived her entire life in St.Louis. She attended Twillman Elementary school, in Spanish Lake, when it was just two rooms. She often said, the best times of her life was when she lived in a little two room house at Spanish Lake Park, with her family, where her parents were caretakers. She was a cheerleader at Farragut High School and then went on to Hadley Technical School where she learned many clerical skills. One of the things she was most proud of was learning to type 95 words per minute. Her work ethic was impeccable. She became a secretary for a short time and then went on to work for 30 years at Glasgow Pharmacy, in Glasgow Village, as a pharmacy technician. She also worked as a picture framer, a doctors office manager and in retail customer service. She was married to Donnie Miller and together they had a daughter, Donna (Miller) Fisher. She was also married to Dr Anthony Moscal.

Darleen was very creative. Her hobbies included reading, flower arranging, scherenschnitte, and various other crafts. She loved, trivia, jazz music, Frank Sinatra, Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli. She was extremely interested in the history, culture and the unjust treatment of Native Americans and read many publications on the subject. Three years ago she traveled to Arizona and New Mexico, with her daughter, to see the Grand Canyon and experience some of the Native American culture. She also followed politics closely and it was very important to her to cast her absentee vote this year.

Darleen is survived by her daughter, Donna and son-in-law Ken Schafermeyer, her grandsons, Jason Hinklin-Lauderdale, (Katherine), and Daniel Lauderdale, (Kelly), great grandchildren, Daniel Lauderdale II, Lilly Lauderdale, Atticus Hinklin-Lauderdale and Oliver Hinklin-Lauderdale, her sister, Karen Smith-Crawford, (Dennis), and nephews Anthony Murawski and Paul Murawski.

Darleen taught us kindness, independence, integrity, creativity and empathy. She taught us the importance of reading and about the power of music. She liked eating pizza while watching Road Runner cartoons on Saturdays, when her daughter was little. She loved playing cards with, and making French Toast and cinnamon rolls for her grandsons. She taught us to turn the lights off and close the refrigerator because we didn’t own the electric company, to close the front door because we couldn’t afford to cool the whole neighborhood and that if you wanted to eat your Popsicle outside, you had to have enough for everyone. She was a good woman who loved and protected her family, above all else.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, October 29, 2016 at St. Louis Cremation, 2135 Chouteau Ave., St. Louis, MO 63103. Family and friends can gather to visit from 10-11am with the service beginning at 11am. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to VITAS Hospice at https://www.vitas.com/community-connection. Contribution envelopes will also be provided at the service.