Lola Stone Whittemore

Funeral services for Lola Stone Whittemore, 68, of Wells will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 29, at the O.T. Allen & Son Funeral Home in Alto with the Rev. Bobby King officiating.

Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until service time. Interment will follow the service at Old Palestine Cemetery.

Lola was born Nov. 20, 1950, in Lufkin to Agness Carter Stone and George Stone. She passed away Thursday, Sept. 26, in Lufkin. She had lived all her life in Wells, Texas, and was Baptist. She graduated from Wells High School in 1969.

Lola was a very kind-hearted person who would help anyone that she could. She spent a lot of time visiting nursing home residents and was retired from the Lufkin State School after 28 years’ service.

Survivors include her sisters and brothers-in-law, Becky Lindsey, Viola Edwards (James) and Mary Schuermann (Marvin); as well as a number of nieces and nephews that she loved dearly. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd Whittemore; her parents; sisters, Louise Butler and Martha Marie Higginbotham; brothers-in-law James Roy Lindsey and Danny Higginbotham; as well as a baby brother, William Fred Stone.

Pallbearers are Wesley Higginbotham, Steve Higginbotham, Justin Williams, Jason Enright, Brandon Enright, Scott Enright and Charlie Charanza.