Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

Lola A. Drake Neumayer King

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Lola A. Drake Neumayer King

Kalona, Iowa---A memorial service for Lola A. King Neumayer, 90, former resident of Helena, Ok., will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Peterseim Funeral Home. Bobb Barrick will officiate. Burial of cremains will be in Good Hope Cemetery, Helena, Ok. at a later date. Visitation at the funeral home will be noon Wednesday until service time.

Lola was born Dec. 6, 1908, on the family farm at Gate to Harry G. and Alice Lemmons Drake and died Sunday, Feb. 7, 1999, at Pleasantview Home in Kalona from complications of Parkinson's disease. She attended college at Alva and Emporia, Ks., earning a bachelorr's degree in mathematics. She taught school at Englewood, Ks.

On March 1, 1930, she married Lloyd B. King. He died in 1971. They lived in Hesston, Ks., until 1940 when they moved ot Oklahoma. She taught at rural schools in Highland and Green Plain near Helena and the Helena School system, retiring in 1973 as principal of Helena Grade School.

On Oct. 29, 1983, she married Vernon Neumayer and moved to El Dorado, Ks. He died in 1993 and in October of that year, she moved to Pleasantview Home in Kalona.

She was active in the Methodist Church of Englewood, Evangelical Church at Hesston, Helena Methodist Church from 1940 to 1983 and First united Methodist Church in El Dorado.

Surviving are one stepdaughter, Eleanor Schrock of Kalona; one son, Gerald (Jerry) King of Lanham, Md.; three sisters, Louise Hamilton of Wichita, Kathryn Runkle of Millbrae, Ca. and Mildred Warnaca of Shelton Wa.; 15 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one son, Delbert, one daughter, one brother and one sister.

Memorials may be made to Parkinson's Disease Research and/or to Pleasantview Home in Kalona.