Lola Carolyn Pope Powell
May 22, 1918 - January 15, 2021
Bradenton, Florida - Manatee County lost another native pioneering family member. At 102, Lola Carolyn Pope Powell passed on January 15, 2021.
She was the youngest daughter of Andrew Curtis and Leticia Kennedy Pope's nine children.
Lola lived 95 years in the county where her great grandparents homesteaded after the Civil War.
Her father was instrumental procuring the original bridge across the Mantatee River at Rye (Mitchellville at that time) when mail was delivered by boat.
When she was born, the county seat was 'Pine Level' (off Hwy 70 toward Arcadia), where her father, a county commissioner, rode horseback to the courthouse. Lola saw Manatee Avenue go from sand to shell before any bridge crossed the north end of Braden River. She recalled a time when horses and wagons had to ford when the tide was out. Her father helped champion Hwy. 64 West through the county, getting a bridge built on the north end of the Braden River into Manatee, site of a second county seat and today's current historical village. Every road off Hwy. 64 East, starting with Morgan Johnson Road, was named after relatives until changed in the last decade. Her father helped build Baptist churches, including Bethany where her family worshiped.
Lola recalled the family's wagon leaving for church before dawn with lanterns attached to the sides of two horses' heads. Churchgoing from childhood, she began singing with family, then in choirs until age 80. In midlife she also sang in quartets. Her mother, Leticia, helped start quartet singing conventions throughout the area.
Lola graduated from Bradenton High School (now Manatee) and was the oldest living alumni.
During WW II she worked at North Island Naval Air Base, San Diego, California.
A Palmetto First Baptist member since 1954, she served as a youth secretary and events coordinator, traveling summers to Ridgecrest, North Carolina as a chaperone. She helped establish First Baptist Church of Ellenton and Palm View Church. In Palmetto's Women's Club, she was active cooking and assisting in fair food booths.
She, also, was the office manager for her husband's business.
Preceded in death by husband, C.B. "Jack" Powell, but still independent, Lola moved to Franklin, NC in 2012.
She is survived by a daughter, Bonnie Powell, of Franklin, an exchange student daughter, Susan Sweeney Bowe of Australia, and multi-generational nieces, nephews, and cousins in Manatee County, the Florida Panhandle, and Western North Carolina. A great historian and storyteller, Lola loved cooking, all things sewing, singing, Bible study, and family and friends. She participated each October in the Pope, Kennedy and Johnson Pioneer Families' Reunion where, after pot luck dinner, all who wanted would gather to sing and play the old gospel songs she loved.
Funeral services provided by Mansion Memorial Park
1400 36th Ave East, Ellenton, FL 34222
Published in Bradenton Herald on Jan. 24, 2021
Note: Bradenton High School, Class of 1939
May 22, 1918 - January 15, 2021
Bradenton, Florida - Manatee County lost another native pioneering family member. At 102, Lola Carolyn Pope Powell passed on January 15, 2021.
She was the youngest daughter of Andrew Curtis and Leticia Kennedy Pope's nine children.
Lola lived 95 years in the county where her great grandparents homesteaded after the Civil War.
Her father was instrumental procuring the original bridge across the Mantatee River at Rye (Mitchellville at that time) when mail was delivered by boat.
When she was born, the county seat was 'Pine Level' (off Hwy 70 toward Arcadia), where her father, a county commissioner, rode horseback to the courthouse. Lola saw Manatee Avenue go from sand to shell before any bridge crossed the north end of Braden River. She recalled a time when horses and wagons had to ford when the tide was out. Her father helped champion Hwy. 64 West through the county, getting a bridge built on the north end of the Braden River into Manatee, site of a second county seat and today's current historical village. Every road off Hwy. 64 East, starting with Morgan Johnson Road, was named after relatives until changed in the last decade. Her father helped build Baptist churches, including Bethany where her family worshiped.
Lola recalled the family's wagon leaving for church before dawn with lanterns attached to the sides of two horses' heads. Churchgoing from childhood, she began singing with family, then in choirs until age 80. In midlife she also sang in quartets. Her mother, Leticia, helped start quartet singing conventions throughout the area.
Lola graduated from Bradenton High School (now Manatee) and was the oldest living alumni.
During WW II she worked at North Island Naval Air Base, San Diego, California.
A Palmetto First Baptist member since 1954, she served as a youth secretary and events coordinator, traveling summers to Ridgecrest, North Carolina as a chaperone. She helped establish First Baptist Church of Ellenton and Palm View Church. In Palmetto's Women's Club, she was active cooking and assisting in fair food booths.
She, also, was the office manager for her husband's business.
Preceded in death by husband, C.B. "Jack" Powell, but still independent, Lola moved to Franklin, NC in 2012.
She is survived by a daughter, Bonnie Powell, of Franklin, an exchange student daughter, Susan Sweeney Bowe of Australia, and multi-generational nieces, nephews, and cousins in Manatee County, the Florida Panhandle, and Western North Carolina. A great historian and storyteller, Lola loved cooking, all things sewing, singing, Bible study, and family and friends. She participated each October in the Pope, Kennedy and Johnson Pioneer Families' Reunion where, after pot luck dinner, all who wanted would gather to sing and play the old gospel songs she loved.
Funeral services provided by Mansion Memorial Park
1400 36th Ave East, Ellenton, FL 34222
Published in Bradenton Herald on Jan. 24, 2021
Note: Bradenton High School, Class of 1939
Lola Carolyn Pope Powell
May 22, 1918 - January 15, 2021
Bradenton, Florida - Manatee County lost another native pioneering family member. At 102, Lola Carolyn Pope Powell passed on January 15, 2021.
She was the youngest daughter of Andrew Curtis and Leticia Kennedy Pope's nine children.
Lola lived 95 years in the county where her great grandparents homesteaded after the Civil War.
Her father was instrumental procuring the original bridge across the Mantatee River at Rye (Mitchellville at that time) when mail was delivered by boat.
When she was born, the county seat was 'Pine Level' (off Hwy 70 toward Arcadia), where her father, a county commissioner, rode horseback to the courthouse. Lola saw Manatee Avenue go from sand to shell before any bridge crossed the north end of Braden River. She recalled a time when horses and wagons had to ford when the tide was out. Her father helped champion Hwy. 64 West through the county, getting a bridge built on the north end of the Braden River into Manatee, site of a second county seat and today's current historical village. Every road off Hwy. 64 East, starting with Morgan Johnson Road, was named after relatives until changed in the last decade. Her father helped build Baptist churches, including Bethany where her family worshiped.
Lola recalled the family's wagon leaving for church before dawn with lanterns attached to the sides of two horses' heads. Churchgoing from childhood, she began singing with family, then in choirs until age 80. In midlife she also sang in quartets. Her mother, Leticia, helped start quartet singing conventions throughout the area.
Lola graduated from Bradenton High School (now Manatee) and was the oldest living alumni.
During WW II she worked at North Island Naval Air Base, San Diego, California.
A Palmetto First Baptist member since 1954, she served as a youth secretary and events coordinator, traveling summers to Ridgecrest, North Carolina as a chaperone. She helped establish First Baptist Church of Ellenton and Palm View Church. In Palmetto's Women's Club, she was active cooking and assisting in fair food booths.
She, also, was the office manager for her husband's business.
Preceded in death by husband, C.B. "Jack" Powell, but still independent, Lola moved to Franklin, NC in 2012.
She is survived by a daughter, Bonnie Powell, of Franklin, an exchange student daughter, Susan Sweeney Bowe of Australia, and multi-generational nieces, nephews, and cousins in Manatee County, the Florida Panhandle, and Western North Carolina. A great historian and storyteller, Lola loved cooking, all things sewing, singing, Bible study, and family and friends. She participated each October in the Pope, Kennedy and Johnson Pioneer Families' Reunion where, after pot luck dinner, all who wanted would gather to sing and play the old gospel songs she loved.
Funeral services provided by Mansion Memorial Park
1400 36th Ave East, Ellenton, FL 34222
Published in Bradenton Herald on Jan. 24, 2021
Note: Bradenton High School, Class of 1939
May 22, 1918 - January 15, 2021
Bradenton, Florida - Manatee County lost another native pioneering family member. At 102, Lola Carolyn Pope Powell passed on January 15, 2021.
She was the youngest daughter of Andrew Curtis and Leticia Kennedy Pope's nine children.
Lola lived 95 years in the county where her great grandparents homesteaded after the Civil War.
Her father was instrumental procuring the original bridge across the Mantatee River at Rye (Mitchellville at that time) when mail was delivered by boat.
When she was born, the county seat was 'Pine Level' (off Hwy 70 toward Arcadia), where her father, a county commissioner, rode horseback to the courthouse. Lola saw Manatee Avenue go from sand to shell before any bridge crossed the north end of Braden River. She recalled a time when horses and wagons had to ford when the tide was out. Her father helped champion Hwy. 64 West through the county, getting a bridge built on the north end of the Braden River into Manatee, site of a second county seat and today's current historical village. Every road off Hwy. 64 East, starting with Morgan Johnson Road, was named after relatives until changed in the last decade. Her father helped build Baptist churches, including Bethany where her family worshiped.
Lola recalled the family's wagon leaving for church before dawn with lanterns attached to the sides of two horses' heads. Churchgoing from childhood, she began singing with family, then in choirs until age 80. In midlife she also sang in quartets. Her mother, Leticia, helped start quartet singing conventions throughout the area.
Lola graduated from Bradenton High School (now Manatee) and was the oldest living alumni.
During WW II she worked at North Island Naval Air Base, San Diego, California.
A Palmetto First Baptist member since 1954, she served as a youth secretary and events coordinator, traveling summers to Ridgecrest, North Carolina as a chaperone. She helped establish First Baptist Church of Ellenton and Palm View Church. In Palmetto's Women's Club, she was active cooking and assisting in fair food booths.
She, also, was the office manager for her husband's business.
Preceded in death by husband, C.B. "Jack" Powell, but still independent, Lola moved to Franklin, NC in 2012.
She is survived by a daughter, Bonnie Powell, of Franklin, an exchange student daughter, Susan Sweeney Bowe of Australia, and multi-generational nieces, nephews, and cousins in Manatee County, the Florida Panhandle, and Western North Carolina. A great historian and storyteller, Lola loved cooking, all things sewing, singing, Bible study, and family and friends. She participated each October in the Pope, Kennedy and Johnson Pioneer Families' Reunion where, after pot luck dinner, all who wanted would gather to sing and play the old gospel songs she loved.
Funeral services provided by Mansion Memorial Park
1400 36th Ave East, Ellenton, FL 34222
Published in Bradenton Herald on Jan. 24, 2021
Note: Bradenton High School, Class of 1939
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