In loving memory of
Lola Belle Koch
January 3, 2006
Lola Belle Koch, 95, of Maple Lawn Nursing Center, Palmyra, MO and formerly of 3920 Holiday Hill, Quincy, died Tuesday morning, January 3, 2006 at 10 a.m. in Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Palmyra, MO.
She was born June 1, 1910 in LaGrange, Missouri, a daughter of Homer I. and Lela Childress Yowell. She married Norbert Pinkard who died in 1961. Six years later, she married Noble A. Koch. He died in 1993.
Lola was a member for many years at Immanuel Baptist Church, a neighborhood church. After marrying Noble, she would attend Vermont Street United Methodist Church with him one Sunday and he would attend her church the following Sunday. Lola was an excellent cook, seamstress and tailor. She was a most loving sister, mother, step-mother, grandparent and great grandparent. She enjoyed playing cards and played with her sister Vivian Heubner until Alzheimer's disease would no longer permit her to do so.
When employed Lola worked as a seamstress at J. C. Penney and at Kemner's Furniture in the drapery department.
Survivors include her son, Terry Pinkard, a step-daughter; Charlotte Tournear and her husband John, all of Quincy; grandchildren, Greg Pinkard and his wife Jodi, Herrin , IL; Wesley J. Zander and his wife Miley of Saddlebrooke, MO; Jennifer Zander Clark of Quincy; step-grandsons, Disraeli and Atticus Tournear of Farmer City, IL; eight great grandchildren; three nieces, Shirley Timmerwilke, Clara Hessling, Kathleen Altgilbers, and a nephew, Ron Heubner, all of Quincy.
In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Fayne Yowell and his wife Ella; a sister, Vivian Heubner and her husband "Birdie" and a nephew, Jim Yowell.
Services will be on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 10:00 a.m.at Hansen-Spear Funeral Home with the Rev. Thomas Waters officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be on Friday, January 6, 2006 from 9-10 a.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the family. No flowers, please.