Obituary for Lola Brabander

Ponca City Now - August 17, 2015 12:00 am

Lola Marie Brabander of Ponca City, Oklahoma, died Sunday evening, August 16, 2015, at her home at the age of 84 years.

Lola Marie Brabander was born on July 26, 1931, in Milan, Kansas, to Jesse and Mary Zelpha (McFarland) Farley. She grew up attending an elementary school in the country outside of Milan, Kansas before attending and graduating from Wellington High School, in Wellington, Kansas. She married Edwin G. Brabander on March 26, 1951, in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and they first resided on a farm near Dalton, Kansas. Soon afterwards, they settled on farm near Deer Creek, Oklahoma, where she assisted her husband with the farming operation and raised their family. In 1981, she returned to Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa and entered the nursing program. Upon completion of her associate degree, she continued training at the Blackwell Regional Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital in Enid. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Blackwell where she taught Sunday School for several years. She enjoyed reading, homemaking and raising her family. She also enjoyed sewing and creating arts and crafts projects with her grandchildren.

She is survived by two daughters and their husbands; Linda and Stanley Forsyth of Ponca City and Rhonda and Michael Sproull of Winchester, Virginia; one daughter-in-law, Janet Brabander of Perry, Oklahoma; ten grandchildren; twenty three great and step great grandchildren; one great great grandchild; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her former husband, Edwin Brabander; a son, Kurt Brabander; her parents; and three brothers, Earl, Warnie and Loue Farley.

Services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Friday, August 21st in the Trinity Lutheran Church in Blackwell with Rev. Ned Moerbe officiating. Burial will follow in the Mt. Olive Cemetery in Nardin.

Casketbearers will be Wade Forsyth, Jesse Forsyth, Cody Forsyth, Sean Sproull, Jason Holt and Todd Forsyth. Serving as honorary casketbearers will be Kutter Brabander, David Farley, Lori Branning, Cathy Giefer, Jim Farley, and Dennis Farley.

A memorial has been established in her honor with the Trinity Lutheran Church in c/o Roberts and Son Funeral Home, 120 W. Padon, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74631.