Lola E. Pace Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Lola E Schooling Pace, widow, who would have been 91 years of age on August 31 of this year, passed away on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at St Joseph Hospital in the Heights in Houston, Texas. At the time of her death, she was visiting her son as she spends the winters in Houston and the summers with her daughter in Pennsylvania. Lola Pace was born in St. Vrain, Curry County, New Mexico on August 31, 1924, and she graduated high school in Melrose, New Mexico in 1942. She was married on September 5, 1942 in Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico to Randle W "Wortie" Pace, a World War II veteran. They first lived in Farwell, Parmer County, Texas where her husband operated his own business, but soon thereafter he became employed with Halliburton Oil Well Servicing Company which relocated him to Terminal and Rankin, Texas and thereafter to Oil City and Bossier City, Louisiana but they resided Shreveport, Louisiana where they lived until their children finished school and college. After Lola's children were middle school age, Lola Pace became a beautician and worked in that career for several years. She and her husband eventually retired in 1975 and relocated back to Texico, New Mexico which was located just a few miles from their birthplaces to live close to their respective families. However her calling in life was mainly as a caregiver and after raising three children of her own, she raised the three children of her daughter, Sue, and then raised three of Sue's grandchildren. She was the most caring, generous and kind mother, grandmother and great - grandmother and was soon to become a great-great-grandmother. She loved to sew and made many articles of clothing for her family. She also loved to do embroidery and to crochet and gave many items of her loving craft to family and dear friends. She also spent many hours working jigsaw puzzles and was a voracious reader of mystery novels. After she gave up her own home in 2008 she lived primarily with her son in Houston and her daughter in Red Lion, Pennsylvania and was able to travel the country with them and see many landmark sites as well as many places associated with her ancestry, as her son and daughter are both avid genealogists. She was a descendant of several Magna Carta Barons and thus royalty of Europe. She was also a distant cousin of Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush and his son, George Walker Bush as well as the late Princess Diana of Great Britain. She was even a descendant of Cleopatra, sister of Pocahontas, although she did not seek any memberships with the respective hereditary societies associated with her illustrious ancestors. She was preceeded in death by her parents, Gilbert Houston Schooling and wife, Ernestine Griggs Schooling and her devoted sister, Dorothy Mae Schooling Gast who died on March 19, 1983 in Muleshoe, Texas. She was also preceeded in death by her loving husband, Randle W. "Wortie" Pace on June 12, 1979 in Clovis, New Mexico as well as by her loving daughter, Bennie Sue Pace Hicks Crawford on September 22, 2008 in Kaufman, Texas. Lola Pace is survived by many wonderful cousins as well as her loving children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, including: son, Randy Pace of Houston, Texas; daughter, Cheryl Pace Weaver Frame, and her husband, Dave Wetherell Frame of Red Lion, Pennsylvania; grandchildren including: Andy Weaver of Fallston, Maryland; Kelli Hicks of Texarkana, Arkansas; Scott Hicks of Irving, Texas; and Wade Hicks of Layayette, Louisiana; great-grandchildren: Amber Weaver of Abington, Maryland; Cody Weaver of Fallston, Maryland and John Thomas McQuade of Roanoke, Virginia; Brittany Hicks of LaMarque, Texas; and Hailley Hicks and Chase Hicks of Shreveport, Louisiana. Lola Pace is also survived by her brother-in-law, Karl Julius "Smoky" Gast of Farwell, Texas as well as niece, Jackie Gast Walker of Wildorado, Texas and nephew Michael Kent "Pecos" Gast of Farwell, Texas. Cards of condolences are welcome in lieu of flowers which can be sent in care of her son, Randy Pace, 375 W 19th Street, Houston, TX 77008. After the cremation of Lola Pace, her family will gather for a private family memorial service in the near future.