Coley
LORA KEMPER COLEY
October 24, 1933 August 13, 2018
Lora K. Coley passed away August 13, 2018 at home after having survived three primary cancers over a period of thirty-seven years (breast, colon and bladder). She was born Lora Faye Kemper in Kilgore, Texas on October 24, 1933 to W.O. Kemper and Katie L. Kemper (nee Simon). The family moved to Shreveport, Louisiana when she was six and where she graduated from high school.
While attending the University of Houston she met and married her husband, Thomas W. Coley, December 26, 1954, who at the time was attending Army flight school.
Upon his completion of flight training she accompanied him on his first assignment to the Panama Canal Zone where their first son was born and then to Tegucigalpa, Honduras where their daughter was born. A second son was born ten years later in Shreveport, Louisiana while Tom was deployed to Vietnam.
As a dedicated army wife she was the main-stay of the family through the family's many assignments in the United States and Europe and during three of her husband's unaccompanied overseas tours. Upon Tom's retirement the family settled in one of Lora's favorite locations from the time she was a teenager, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
In addition to being
an active and involved army wife Lora became a noted professional artist, studying in Europe and the USA. Her works sold in Germany and the U.S. in galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Scottsdale, Arizona as well as galleries in Colorado.
She is survived by her husband, Tom; two sons, Steven Kemper Coley and Todd W. Coley; a daughter, Carol Susan Coley; and two grandchildren, Paul Coley and Celest Edmonds.
The family will hold a private memorial service with inurnment in the Meditation Glen at the Broadmoor Community Church.
Memorials in Lora's memory can be made to Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation at 2550 Tenderfoot Hill Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906.
Or online at https://www.pikespeakhospice.org/donate-today
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
2 Entries
I loved and admired Lora so much.
She was an inspiration in so many ways. Beautiful inside and out. I will miss her greatly but I'm so glad she was a part of my life.
Sherry Hillstrom
Friend
August 21, 2018
Lora was one of my all time favorite friends. We had many good times together. Lora and Tom made such a wonderful couple. I loved Lora, enough said. PJ Heyliger
Phyllis Heyliger
August 19, 2018
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