Lois Marie Carlson

Funeral services for Lois Carlson will be 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, August 5, 2015, at the Freedom Christian Church with Rev. Mark Kinkle officiating. Interment will be in the Freedom Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Lois Marie Maxwell was born December 28, 1925, to Herbert and Mary (Beck) Maxwell in Alva, and passed away July 31, 2015, at Buffalo at the age of 89 years, 7 months, and 3 days. She started school in 1931 at Cleo Springs and later attended school in Cheyenne, Oklahoma. Lois graduated high school at Selman as Valedictorian of her class in 1944. Lois and Gilbert Carlson met while Lois was working for Vesta and Ray Howard in the summer of 1945. They were married February 24, 1946, at Lookout in Dorres and Leroy Carlson’s house. Gilbert’s brother, Leonard, performed the ceremony. Gilbert and Lois started farming and ranching in the Lookout community and resided there until they moved to Alva in 2012 due to illness. While living in Lookout community one son, Denis Leroy Carlson, was born in 1951. Lois was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and friend and was loved by all in the community. Lois was a pianist and always played for the Elkhorn Church services. Lois greatly enjoyed and was active in the Cimarron Neighbor’s Club and held different offices in the club. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Gilbert Carlson; a brother, Cleo Maxwell; sister in law, Betty Carlson; brothers in law, Melvin Thompson, Ray Pantry, Ernest Burrows, and Leonard Carlson. Lois is survived by her son, Denis Carlson and wife, Sara, of Freedom; grandchildren, Lynn and Tippe Bolar, Pebbles and Ky Luddington, Lonnie and Janet Bolar, and Pake and Jackie Carlson, all of the Freedom area; seven great granddaughters; five great grandsons; and four great great grandsons; two sisters, Joyce Thompson of Mobile, Alabama, and Zola Pantry of Oklahoma City; one brother Donald Maxwell and wife, Glenda, of Alva; two sisters in law, Betty Jo Maxwell of Rosamond, California, and Eleanor Burrows of Grand Prairie, Texas; a very special friend, Betty Robertson, of Buffalo; other relatives and many friends. Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to the Freedom Ambulance.

Lois Marie Carlson

December 28, 1925 - July 31, 2015