| Lola B. Kehn February 23, 1908 February 2, 2010 |
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| Comments from friends and relatives May this tribute bring comforting words and pleasant memories during this difficult time. It has been an honor serving your family. Lanman Funeral Home Staff Name = Rockford Johnson E-mail = rockfordjohnson@sbcglobal.net Phone Number = 405.224.0160 Memorial Name = Lola Kehn Comments = Sermon from Lola's funeral, by Rockford Johnson: Near to the Heart of God John 14.1-4 and Psalm 139.1-12, 23-24 John 14.1-4 (KJV) Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. It is the nature of God to make a place for us. In fact, every place that we go, as the Psalm says, God is there. God’s place is not a place made with hands but the place of eternal love. In some sense, then, everywhere we go, every day we live, we live in God’s place. Even this day, especially this day, God is with us. At a time like this, we have no fear, worry, or dismay for we know that Lola is with God in that place made for her, a place near to the heart of God. Through all the days of her life, God was with Lola, in the days of her childhood and teenage years, on the day that she married David, through all their life together, the day that she buried David, and all the days hence, nearly 102 years. God is like that, so tenacious and kind in love, grace, mercy, and wisdom. There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Like Lola, we also have a place with God. God is a “place-making” kind of God, constantly calling, invit! ing, preparing, and lavishly welcoming us home. I think we can say that Lola’s faith was expressed in her love. In her own small way, Lola imitated God’s way of making a place for others. I believe that our grandfather, Lola’s brother-in-law, built the house where Lola has lived all these years, first with David and then alone. But in a real sense, Lola made the house a home. She made it a place where at least two generations of nieces and nephews loved to go. That little house in the middle of Goltry could tell many stories of children playing with Lincoln Logs, Chinese Checkers, of puzzling over puzzles, of watching the miracle of aluminum foil rising up from a Jiffy Pop pan as Lola prepared to feed us. It could tell stories of many unremarkable but happy visits among grown up nephews and nieces. It wasn’t the house or the popcorn or the puzzles or toys, of course, that made it such special place to go; no, it was Lola, and earlier, Lola and David that made that place a second home to many of us. It was her hea! rt of love and care. Psalm 139 reminds us that God watches all of our comings and goings. More than that, however, it leads us to believe that God is with us all our days, in all our going and coming, night and day, now and forever. Psalm 139.1-12, 23-24 (KJV) 1O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. 7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.… 23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Several years ago, my son, Micah, and I made a birdhouse for Elizabeth as a Mother’s Day gift. We sawed pieces of plywood and constructed them into a pitched roof house with a front porch. We put pillars on the porch and a chimney on top. We painted it and covered it with a sealcoat of polyurethane to protect it from the weather. We, I, may have made the hole for the door a little too large. You see, while birds nest there in the spring and summer, squirrels take up residence in the winter. The little house hangs in a Magnolia tree outside our second story bedroom window. Sometimes we, often our cats, watch birds, sometimes squirrels, coming and going. If someone had watched Lola’s house from across the street, as her sister Nina surely must have watched for so many years, she would have seen plenty of coming and going. She would have seen parents bringing their children to play and then carrying them out, asleep in their arms, at the end of the day. She would have! seen children playing on the porch swing, rolling in the grass down into the ditch on a warm summer evening, and setting off firecrackers in the driveway culvert. She would have seen her three older sisters coming and going, her nephews coming to fix things and to mow the yard, and great-nieces and nephews all grown up coming by to enjoy time with Lola and a pinch on the cheek. She would have seen Lola walking out with David Sunday after Sunday to go to church, and, eventually, at age 100 easily walking up the stairs of the porch after some outing or holiday gathering. Jesus calls us to a place near to the heart of God, saying in the Gospel of Matthew, “Come to me all you who are weary and heaven burdened, take my yoke, learn from me,…and you will find rest for your souls.” Also in the same Gospel, we hear Jesus calming all fears and anxiety saying “do not worry” God provides, not even a sparrow dies that God is not there, how much more then when one of us slips away as Lola did a few days ago. As many of us know, Lola was known to worry some. She worried that her pies were not good enough. They always were. She worried sometimes about how she looked. She always looked wonderful. She worried, sometimes, about what God might think of her. She always had a true faith in God, often saying “Jesus is my savior,” (from Glade Schmidt) She was always ready to pray. Now she worries no more. Now she knows the eternal peace of God, the “quiet rest,” the “comfort sweet,” and the “full release” of her place with God in the mystery of eternity through Jesus Christ. Near to the Heart of God There is a place of quiet rest, Near to the heart of God. A place where sin cannot molest, Near to the heart of God. There is a place of comfort sweet, Near to the heart of God. A place where we our Savior meet, Near to the heart of God. There is a place of full release, Near to the heart of God. A place where all is joy and peace, Near to the heart of God. Refrain O Jesus, blest Redeemer, Sent from the heart of God, Hold us who wait before Thee Near to the heart of God So we who gather today live in the light of the rising sun. We celebrate the hope of eternal life, the hope of resurrection, the confidence that life goes on for those who die and for those who live. Amen. |
| Goltry-Funeral service for Lola B. Kehn, will be Friday, February 5, 2010 at 1:00 P. M. at Zoar Mennonite Church in Goltry with Pastor Gary Eastin and Rev. Rockford Johnson officiating. Burial will be at Karoma Cemetery with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Helena. Viewing will be Thursday from 10:00 A.M. until 6:00 P.M. at the funeral home. Memories may be shared with the family at www.lanmanmemorials.com. Lola was born on February 23, 1908 in Goltry to Fred Buller and Eva Wedel Buller and passed from this life on February 2, 2010 in Enid at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center. She was raised in Goltry. On September 9, 1939 Lola married David Kehn. They lived and farmed near Meno after their marriage for seven years. Later they owned and operated B & K Grocery Store in Goltry until they retired. David passed away in 1994. Lola is survived by one sister-in-law, Helen Pekrul and nieces and nephews. Those who preceded Lola in death include three sisters, Ada, Nina and Ella; two step brothers, Clarence Pekrul and Herman Pekrul. |
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