Lola Bolton Williams

Lola Bolton Williams passed away peacefully on August 15, 2021 in Draper, Utah
She was born on Aug 10, 1927, in Bennett, Uintah County, Utah, (about 12 miles NE of Roosevelt, Utah) to Mervin Curtis Bolton and Nellie McKowen Bolton, the fifth of seven children.
Lola grew up on the austere family farm in the Uintah Basin during the Great Depression.  The farm never had running water.  Electricity finally came to the house after World War II.  She learned at an early age the value of hard work with her family to survive those difficult times.  She grew up close to family as she spent time with parents, brothers and sisters, and many Bolton cousins.
During her school years she usually rode her favorite horse, Bollie, from her house about 2 miles to the bus stop, where she put the reins around the saddle horn and would tell the horse to go home.  When the bus dropped her off after school, her dad drove the wagon over to get her.
Family pastimes included baseball, snowball fights and listening to the radio.  They loved the World Series.  One of Mom’s favorite radio shows was “The Shadow”.  Lola’s brothers and cousins usually would not let her play baseball with them, but one day her father encouraged the boys to humor her desire to play.  She promptly hit a home run (to her father’s delight).   She then became a regular member of the team after that.
Especially during her junior high and high school years, Lola developed a great talent for singing.  She had almost perfect pitch and played the piano by ear, but never learned to read music.  Her father loved to produce roadshows and plays, and Lola began her love of singing and dancing by participating and singing with him.  She sang many solos in high school (which terrified her) and sang with the high school choir which always brought more requests for her to sing, even singing a solo at her high school graduation.
After graduating from high school in 1945, she took a job at Hill Field (later Hill AFB) loading ammunition into fighter aircraft machine gun belts.  She stayed in that job for the remainder of World War II.   After the war ended in 1946, she relocated to Salt Lake City, began living with her Aunt Bert Astin, and took a job with Sweet’s Candy Company packing fine chocolates.  She met her future husband, Kelvin Williams, on a blind date set up by her Aunt Bert in 1946 on Halloween.   After a respectably long courtship, Kelvin gave Lola a diamond on Halloween of 1948.  They were married on May 20, 1949 by their Bishop Rex C. Reeve.  Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple on May 20, 1982, also by then Elder Rex C. Reeve.
After several miscarriages, Lola gave birth to a daughter (Karen) and a son (Brian) 14 months later, and then a final son (Kip) 11 years afterwards.
As a mother, Lola had high expectations of her children.  Though she did not have the opportunity herself, she expected her children to go to college.  She was relentless about all of them getting good grades.  Doing your best was a commandment in her home.  She spent countless hours having the children read to her at night with their book on her small pull-out breadboards while she washed and dried dishes.  She had flash cards for every function of math, and expected that all addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tables would be memorized. The children were tested on them frequently.
Lola was always oriented to give service to others.  She spent many hours, at great personal sacrifice, helping her parents, her in-laws, her husband, children, and grandchildren.  Her home was always welcoming to all who came, where anyone could feel at home.  Lola was known for keeping an immaculately clean home.  She gardened, grew fruit, canned, made clothes, and constantly sacrificed any new clothing for herself so that her children would have what they needed for school.  The children were expected to meticulously care for all their clothing and toys—and they did.
All the family loved the cookies that Lola would make.  She kept them in stock no matter how fast they disappeared.  Her grandchildren especially loved going to Grandma’s house and having her dote on them.  They all loved to have her sit and read to them.  She would get down on the floor with the grandchildren and great grandchildren to play with the many old-fashioned toys that she kept from the time her children were young. The grandchildren devoured her raspberries at harvest time in August and her raspberry freezer jam throughout the year.   Christmas Eve parties and Thanksgiving were special occasions for the family.  For her, serving her family was a labor of love and brought her great joy.
Lola served in the Church for many years as a secretary in various organizations—first in the Primary, then in the Relief Society, and for seemingly innumerable years in the ward Sunday School.  Lola and Kelvin set a faithful example of temple attendance, going at least once a month from the time they were sealed in 1982.  Lola loved singing with the ward choir and a small quartet of sisters who often sang both in her ward and at the Highland Care Center.  Lola and Kelvin’s testimonies of the Gospel were demonstrated not so much in words, but in fulfilling their callings faithfully, and always doing their visiting and home teaching.
In their “empty nester” years, Lola enjoyed going with Kelvin as he fulfilled construction remodeling assignments on the Chicago Temple, building the Portland Temple, and remodeling in the Manti Temple.  They traveled back and forth across the country and enjoyed the beauty of this great country.
Lola is survived by her daughter Karen Heath (Geoff), son Brian (Roberta), son Kip (April), six grandchildren, and 15 great grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her parents, all of her siblings, her husband, and one great granddaughter.
A viewing will be held on Friday, August 20, 2021, at the Holladay North Stake Center, 4395 South Albright Dr., Holladay, UT 84124-2749 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 p.m.  Funeral services will follow at 6:00 p.m.  Interment will be at Mountain View Memorial Estates, 3115 East Bengal Blvd (7800 So), Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121 at 11:00 am, Saturday, August 21. If you are ordering flowers for Lola, please have them be delivered to our Memorial Murray location on 5850 South 900 East, Murray UT 84121 if it is before Friday at 1:00pm. Otherwise please have them be delivered to the church.
Many thanks go to the wonderful people at Beehive Homes of Draper and Auburn Crest Home Health and Hospice.  We especially thank Jacque Parker, RN, for her attentiveness and love for Lola during the last 6 ½ months.
 
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Viewing August 20, 2021 at 3:30PM - 5:30PM
4395 South Albright Dr., Holladay, UT 84124





Funeral Service
August 20, 2021 at 6:00PM - 7:00PM
4395 South Albright Dr., Holladay, UT 84124