Lola Dell Elkins; Volunteer

Lola Dell Elkins, a longtime Glendale resident who served as a volunteer worker in Assemblyman Pat Nolan’s (R-Glendale) campaign office until she was 99, has died at a Tujunga convalescent hospital. She was 102.

Mrs. Elkins died Saturday of heart failure, said her granddaughter, Christy Alferi of Tujunga.

Born Lola Dell Hibben in Sheridan, Ill., her family moved to Glendale in 1907 when she was a teen-ager.

She graduated from the Woodbury College of Business Administration in Los Angeles and worked as an accountant at a Long Beach hospital.

She worked as a bookkeeper for her son’s television sales and service business, Radio Den in Glendale, until the late 1970s.

She became active in volunteer work in the early 1970s. She was a member of the Glendale Republican Women’s Study Club and regularly volunteered her time in Nolan’s campaign office from the early 1980s until her first stroke in late 1988, when she was 99. She was also a longtime member of the Glendale Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In addition to her granddaughter, Mrs. Elkins is survived by her son, John L. Elkins of Los Angeles. Her husband, Louis Elkins, died in 1972.

A funeral, with burial to follow, is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1712 S. Glendale Ave., Glendale. Forest Lawn Mortuary, Glendale, is handling the arrangements.

Donations can be made in Mrs. Elkins’ name to the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles for the hearing-impaired.