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Lola was born on May 5, 1934, to Nellie Oxley Walker and Joseph Herbert Walker in Cleo Springs, Oklahoma, and died on June 30, 2021, in Fairview, Oklahoma. Lola graduated from Cleo Springs High School in 1952. She graduated from Phillips University in 1956 with a degree in secondary education. She then moved to Syracuse, Kansas, in August of 1956, and taught high school English. She soon met and married Martin Tomson on a HOT day in July 1958.
Lola took three years off from teaching to have two sets of twins, Joe and June, then Jack and Jill.
During this time, she attended Fort Hays State College adding a certification in elementary education. She returned to teaching at Kendall and Manter, Kansas, for a total of 18 years teaching in Kansas.
August 1977 brought a move back to Cleo Springs, Oklahoma, when Martin and Lola purchased the Tomson's Oxley Homestead Centennial Farm that was homesteaded in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1893 by Lola's grandparents. They also purchased Grimes/Tomson Hardware and Lumber. Lola helped at the hardware store and taught 16 years at Aline-Cleo Elementary School.
Lola was baptized in the sand pit pond south of Cleo Springs as a child and was a member of the Cleo Springs Christian Church for most of her life and served in several capacities, most obviously as the church pianist and taught herself to play the organ for the church. She sang with the Victory Singers for several years. Lola served as a Cleo Cemetery secretary for years and was an excellent Cleo historian.
Following retirement, Lola enjoyed meeting with Major County Retired Educators in Fairview, and attending CWF events, always making new friends. She loved keeping up with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Survivors include her two sons, Joe Tomson and wife, Mary Ellen of Phoenix, Arizona, and Jack Tomson and wife, Terri of Stillwater; two daughters, June Hiebert and husband, Greg of Ringwood and Jill Lasiter and husband, Scott of Harrah; nine grandchildren, Shane Lasiter (Desirae Shaw), David Lasiter (Katie), Tyler Tomson (Heather), Taylor Tomson, Holly Rahmann (Bryson), Tyson Hiebert (Kaci), Kyle Hiebert, Megan and Maria Tomson; great-grandchildren, Beckham, Bentley, Grace, Heston, Nolan, Kennadee, Floyd, and Zebulun; one sister, Ruth Spurgeon of Cary, North Carolina.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Martin Tomson, and brothers, Wilfred Walker and Paul Dick Walker.
Celebration of life service for Lola was Saturday, July 3, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. at Cleo Springs First Christian Church. Burial was in Syracuse, Kansas, Cemetery. Arrangements made by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Helena.
Memorials may be given to Cleo First Christian Church or OMRF through the funeral home.
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