Mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by family on December 10, 2018 at the age of 87.
Lorine was born March 2, 1931. She grew up on a farm outside of San Antonio, the only child of Rudolph A. and Lena E. Eisenhauer. At the age of 17, Lorine and two friends attended a baseball game in Martinez, Texas, where she met a young man who had recently returned from the Navy. This good looking, dark haired Polish gentleman, who loved to dance, was Victor Golla. Lorine graduated from Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, Texas in 1948 and worked for a short time for USAA before she and Victor were married on November 10, 1949 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas.
Like any newlywed couple, they went about the business of planning their family and setting up their house and farm. In 1955, only six short years into their marriage, and pregnant with their third child, Lorine became ill. It was quickly diagnosed as polio. At the time, this meant several months in the hospital with absolutely no physical contact with Victor, her children, or anyone except doctors and nurses, although Victor visited every evening that she was there.
Victor and Lorine went on to live their life as any other farming family, committed to their Catholic faith and raising their seven children. Lorine was also an excellent seamstress. As the children grew older and more involved in different activities, the need to drive a car was very evident to her. So, with the help of hand controls, she again learned to drive. After eighteen years, Victor and Lorine sold their farm and built a house in Converse, closer to Victor's job with the Post Office and their many friends.
They were founding members of St. Monica's Catholic Church where Lorine held several positions with the St. Monica's Altar Society. They were also very involved for years with the Converse Volunteer Fire Department.
Their life together was full and happy. From the children came grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all of which they were equally as proud. If ever there was a model for marriage, it would have been the marriage of Victor and Lorine. They were married for 63 years until Victor's death in January of 2013. Lorine was a courageous woman. Her kind and gentle spirit was a major factor in her happiness. Though she had many reasons over the years in which she could have become discouraged, she instead made the best of every situation and complained little. Once, I asked my mother what would be the one thing that she would want people to remember about her. Without hesitation she replied, "I would want everyone to know that in spite of everything, I have always been happy".
We have often been told by their friends what good dancers our parents were before my mother's polio. It always made me sad that I was too young to remember seeing them dance. It does however, ease the pain of our loss to think of them, together again, making-up for all those dances they missed through the years and free of their physical limitations.
Lorine is preceded in death by her parents, her loving and devoted husband-Victor Golla, Sr., her son-Victor Golla, Jr., and infant son-Tommy Golla.
She is survived by daughter Sharon Arnold and her husband Frank, daughter Peggy Gutz and her husband Joe, son Larry Golla and his wife Sherry, daughter Loretta Korbar and her husband Louis, daughter Susie Golla, and son David Golla and his wife Michelle. In addition she is survived by grandchildren, Bradley, Joshua and Rebecca Gutz, Richard and Bobby Korbar, Justin Golla, Jessica Zarate and husband Joey, Travis Golla, Julie Ward and husband Gordon, Jennifer Thompson and husband Douglas, Cody Golla and great-grandchildren James and Ashley Ward, Douglas and Chase Thompson, Savannah Golla, Zebastian, Victoria, Everitt, Lyric, Stephan, and Archer Chase.
Visitation will be Thursday, December 13, 2018 from 5:00 until 7:00 P.M at Colonial Funeral Home with a Rosary to follow at 7:00 P.M. Funeral Mass will be Friday, December 14, 2018 at 10 A.M. at Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in St. Hedwig. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. A reception will follow the graveside at St. Monica’s Parish Hall in Converse. Please sign the guestbook at www.colonialuniversal.com
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