Lola Golding

January 14, 1928 - October 26, 2009

Lola Marie was born to Herbert & Alma (Tharp) Trafford in their home in Glidden, Iowa on January 14, 1928, where she joined 5 sisters; Leora, Ida, Alta, Norma and Betty; and 2 brothers Robert and Donald; two years later a 3rd brother, Bertram, was born. Lola died at the age of 81, on October 19, 2009, at Hearthstone, the Memory Care Unit of the Eastern Star Home in Boone, which she entered March 2008. She was preceded in death by her parents, four sisters and two brothers. Lola is survived by her husband Philip (Phil) Golding of Boone, 3 sons and 2 daughters: James Golding and wife Mindy (Pollack) of Guilford, Connecticut; Peggy Lynn and husband Edward of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota; Phyllis Schmidt and husband J. Paul of Clear Lake, Iowa; Thomas Golding and wife Diane of Adelaide, SA Australia; and Kenneth Golding of Clear Lake, Iowa. She is also survived by her sister Betty Warnke and husband Norman of Carroll, Iowa, her brother Bertram Trafford and wife Marlana of Bonaire, Georgia, and sister-in-law and good friend, Mildred Trafford of Hilbert, Wisconsin. She has five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Lola married Philip E. Golding on December 6th of 1948 at the Friends Church in Glidden, Iowa. They farmed for nine years with Phil’s parents on a rented farm just north of Ralston, Iowa. In the fall of 1956, Phil was hired as the Dairy Herd Improvement supervisor for the Audubon/Guthrie County Association and the family moved to Guthrie County in January 1957. Lola took care of the family and did the monthly update of the dairy association herd books for Phil who was often on the road. In June of 1958, after living in Somers for six months, they moved again, this time to Gowrie, Iowa and the Webster County DHI Association. Then to Boone, Iowa, when Phil’s job moved to the office at the Dairy Science Extension at ISU in Ames. Early in their marriage Lola, a small town girl, learned to be a farm wife. She was already an expert seamstress, and now became efficient in gardening, cooking, canning, raising livestock and even taught herself to milk. She loved her chickens. She made most of her family’s clothing. Above all, she loved her family and made the most of every holiday and birthday. Lola was a devoted Christian and a member of the First Evangelical Free Church. Lola loved children and for 20-some years was the main church nursery attendant for all services. In the late 1970s she was hired by the Evangelical Free Church Home, in the dietary department, where she worked for 10 or more years. She took flowers, cookies, candy and small gifts to residents at both the Evangelical Free Church and Eastern Star homes. After she retired in 1990, she continued to call on friends and do volunteer work at both homes. (Perhaps you purchased some of the nylon dishwasher scratchers that she crocheted and were sold at the Evangelical Free Church Home.) Our lasting memory of her was her crooked little smile and the only answer she could speak, “Don’t know.” Or “Maybe?” We miss her and wish we could tell her how much we miss and loved her! Services will be held Monday morning, October 26th at 10:00 a.m. at the First Evangelical Free Church in Boone with Pastors Daniel Grell, Dorington Little III and Rev. Bruce Bentley officiating. Interment will be in Linwood Park Cemetery in Boone. Friends may call at the Stark-Welin Chapel in Boone on Sunday evening from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. with the family present during that time to greet friends. Visitations will continue Monday morning at the Church from 8:30 a.m. until the time of service. In lieu of flowers, those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial may direct their gift to the family for a memorial to be determined at a later date.