Obituary - Lorene Lydia Thomas Wolf

Lorene Lydia Wolf, 91, passed away at 7:20 pm, January 19, 2009.

She was born in Owen Co September 4, 1917 to Peter and Myrtle Smith Thomas.

On November 26, 1942 she married Robert Mitchell Wolf.

Lorene taught for 33 years at Patricksburg, Clay City, and Coal City Elementary Schools. She attended First United Church of Christ and taught Bible School and Sunday School.

She is preceded by her parents Peter and Myrtle Thomas; husband Robert Wolf and son Tom Wolf.

She is survived by her daughter Sue Crafton and husband Chris, Greencastle, IN ; grandsons Kit Crafton and wife Adrielle and Kevin Crafton and fiancé Ashely Browning; grandchildren Traver Wolf and wife Paige, Tara Secrest and husband Joe and great grandchildren Elyssa Secrest and Noah Crafton; daughter in law Beth Wolf.

Services will be at Schoppenhorst Funeral home Saturday January 24, 2009 at 4:00pm with Pastor Julie Western officiating. Visitation will be Saturday from 2pm until time of services.

Learn more about Lorene on the Pence Family History site: https://sites.google.com/site/pencefamilyhistory/families/thomas/lorene-lydia-thomas.

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Letter From Mike

I hope everyone is doing well (especially Gary) and Jeff on his mission. Thanks for all your prayers for our boys and their families. I just wanted to report we had a great day at the Cardston Temple yesterday. We had a youth temple trip and Renee prepared a list of names on the new temple ready program (she is amazing at doing all this stuff). She had a couple from her family and mostly from the Pence family (actually Smith/Boyer). There were 9 men and 12 women. It was a great experience to do the confirmations for each of our great and great/great aunts and uncles included on the temple ready list. There was Harvey Alonzo, Daniel Elias, Ervin Jasper, Ruth, Myrtle, Aretha, Augusta, Mary, Bessie Ida, Elizabeth, and Ada Smith (all brothers and sisters). I met some of these family members when I was a kid including Daniel, Ruth, Bessie, Ada, Myrtle, Agusta and Ada that I can remember. Several of them were from Indiana - I remember Uncle Dan visiting us on the farm. We also had the Boyer family names including David, John, Abraham, Hiram, Daniel, Rudolph, Mary, Hannah, Eliza and Susan. After the baptisms and confirmations, Renee and I each did the initiatories. It was a pretty amazing feeling when I sat there for Harvey Alonzo Smith and had those ordinances performed as well as with the other Smiths and Boyers. I did not realize Dad was named after his Uncle Harvey Alonzo Smith (maybe some of you knew that). It seemed like a pretty thin veil as I could picture and feel Dad in my mind and it brought some tears. I sort of figured all this work had been done for these more recent family members, but appreciate Renee lining this up so I could participate in starting the work for these wonderful family members. We will be going to Cardston soon to start doing the endowments for all of these family members and sealings that will follow. So if anyone wants to come up or over to Montana, we can take you up to help out on getting this work done. We are in a bigger house now so have plenty of room for a nice vacation spot for you. I just thought some of you would be intersted in hearing about the great experience we had yesterday with our Pence/Smith/Boyer family (thanks again Renee!!). Love you all, Mike