Monthie, Lola Reynolds

Lola Reynolds Monthie, 92, of Cedar Rapids, died Sunday, April 28, 2013, from natural causes. Private family memorial services will be held at Cedar Memorial Park Chapel of Memories. Inurnment will be at Cedar Memorial Park Mausoleum. Arrangements entrusted to Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home.

Survivors are her daughter, Susan Pisarik and husband Charles; son, Rick Monthie and wife Julia; six grandchildren, Paula Streeper (Chris), Lisa Gross (Stacy), Dana Chappuie, Rachel Monthie, Kimberly Brentner and Matthew Monthie (Genevieve); and eight great-grandchildren, Lauren, Abby and Megan Gross, Charlie and Dylan Chappuie, Ethan and Samantha Chronister and Miss Violet Brentner.

She was preceded in death by husband, Dick Monthie; her parents, Ernest and Marie Reynolds; and brother, Morris Reynolds.

Lola was born Nov. 19, 1920, to Ernest Reynolds and Marie Morris Reynolds. She graduated from Panora High School in 1938 and from Tabor College in Tabor, Iowa. Lola became a World War II war bride when she married Richard W. Monthie at Perry, Iowa, on Nov. 12, 1942. Dick was in the Army Infantry 6th Division, 20th Infantry, Company M and was shipped to the South Pacific soon after. He was in the Invasion of Born, New Guinea and the Philippines on both Luzon and Leyte and did not return home until Oct. 25, 1945. Lola continued to work in Perry and later in Waterloo after they moved there. They moved from Des Moines to Cedar Rapids in 1952. Lola stayed home with their children until they were older then went to work for Collins Radio on the Apollo Program. She retired in 1982.

Lola was a PTA member at Kenwood School and worked in Camp Fire as a leader for 12 years. She was also a Cub Scout Den Mother. She was a 65 plus year member of the Order of the Eastern Star # 429 at Linden, Iowa, and also a member of Panora Presbyterian Church. She was a loyal fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Chicago Cubs.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be directed to the St. Luke's Foundation.

Please leave a message, tribute or memory to Lola's family at under Obituaries.

When I come to the end

of the day

And the sun has set for me

I want no rites in a

gloom-filled room.

Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little, but not

too long

And not with your head bowed low.

Remember the love we

once shared-

Miss me but let me go

For this is a journey we

all must take

And each must go alone.

It's all a part of the

Maker's plan,

A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely

and sick at heart

Go to the friends we know

And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds-

Miss me, but let me go.

Published in The Gazette April 29, 2013.