Lola Iris (Frye) Zwiefel, daughter of Beverge and Maude (Barrick) Frye was born April 14, 1920, near Ayrshire, Iowa, and departed this life on Wednesday, Februrary 28, 2007, at the West Bend Care Center in West Bend, Iowa, at the age of 86 years old ,10 months.

She was baptized as an infant and became a member of the Cylinder United Methodist Church. Lola attended several country schools, and Jr. High at Lone Rock, living with her brother, Supt. Virgil Frye and family. She graduated from Cylinder High school in 1937 and LaJames School of Cosmetology in Fort Dodge in 1938. Lola became owner/operator of the "Primp Shop" in Cylinder until the elopement on January 1, 1939, with Raymond Zwiefel. They were married at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa and farmed southwest of Fenton. Raymond died in 1987. Lola continued to live on the farm until the fall of 2005.

Family and friends were always welcome at "Grand Central Station." She encouraged her family to pursue their dreams and to be of service to others.

She dearly loved and enjoyed her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, music, gardening and flowers, painting, making a home, and needle work. Each grandchild received a homemade quilt when finishing school. Lola enjoyed several bus trips seeing the United States with friends in her later years. She was a dedicated member of the Fenton United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and the Fenton Women's Club, holding many offices in both organizations.

Left to cherish Lola's memory are her sons, Kenley Zwiefel and his wife, Mavis; Jerome Zwiefel and his wife Barbara, of Lakeville,MN; Daryle Zwiefel and his wife, Barbara; of Humboldt; Joel Zwiefel and his wife, Linda; her daughter, Janean Bierstedt and her husband, Larry; twenty-six grandchildren; thirty great-grandchildren; nephews and nieces including Virginia Hammerstrom who was a like a sister, and sister-in-laws, Mae Menz and Martha Zwiefel.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, Vernie and Virgil; sisters, Lillian De Reus and Arleta Beekman; two nieces and a nephew.

INTERMENT
United Methodist Cemetery
Fenton