EDINBORO, PA – Mrs. Aileen Wade Freasier, one of Ruston pioneering educators and tireless civic workers in past years, died Tuesday May 23, 2017 at the Edinboro Manor Skilled Nursing Facility after a sudden illness. She was 92.She had a passion for education and helping people. After earning her Master in Education from Louisiana Tech University 1966, she was instrumental in establishing the Margaret Roane Day Care Center in Ruston, LA. When special education students were integrated into the public school system, she became an Individual Education Program Facilitator at LA Teaching Institute at Monroe Special Education School District #1 and worked as an Education Diagnostician at LTI Monroe where she worked until she retired in 1995. She has been published in numerous educational books and journals and presented in conferences both nationally and internationally. She has also been recognized for several educational awards both nationally and internationally.In her later years, she is probably best remembered for work with Retired Senior Volunteers tutoring young people at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center. She was very active in community and educational activities serving on the Mayor Commission for Women, editor of various education organization yearbooks including the International Correctional Education Association, and officer in Phi Delta Kappa, American Association of University Women, and Kappa Kappa Iota (KKI).As a 37-year member of KKI, she served as Eta State/LA State President 1991-92, received the Lorettat Doerr Achievement Award 1994 (highest award Eta State presents)and awarded State Scholarship1991. Aileen was loved and admired by Kappas at state and national levels.Mrs. Freasier was also a member of the Long Leaf Pine Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She served as Chapter Regent and was the Constitutional Week Chairman.She was a resident of Ruston for 48 years and was a native of La Villa, TX. She was a graduate of Texas A&I University concentrating on home economics and was married March 1944. She is the widow of Ben Forest Freasier who died in Ruston in 1982.A viewing will be held Tuesday, May 30, 2017 from 2-4pm and 6-8pm at the Kilpatrick Funeral Home, and the funeral service will be on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 10 AM in the Chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston. The burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery immediately following the funeral service at the Funeral Home.She was preceded in death by her sons Raymond Ewell Freasier and John Francis Freasier (Susan) and daughter-in-law Mitzi Freasier.Survivors include one son – Ben Colin Freasier (Linda) of Canberra, Australia; two daughters Doretha Christoph of Edinboro, PA and Barbara Protzman (Robert) of Erie, PA; 9 grandchildren Olivia, Melissa, Jessica, Benjamin Ewell, and Raymond Joseph Freasier, Victoria Rowden, Christopher McNally, David and Sarah Christoph; and 8 great-grandchildren Emily and Bradley Rowden, Ophelia and Malcolm Christoph, Kendall and Kennadi McNally, Pfeifer Baltrotsky, and Alexa Bunning.The family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to the Louisiana Tech University Foundation, P.O. Box 1190 Ruston, LA 71273 in memory of Aileen W. Freasier.