LOLA ANNE SALE BADE

LOLA ANNE SALE BADE

VICTORIA - Lola Anne Sale Bade passed away on Saturday, November 17, 2012. She was born in Cuero, TX to Allen Pierson Connor Sale and her husband, Dr. Walter Wynne Sale on February 25, 1920. Lola was a proud first generation Texan. Lola's family moved to Cuero from Covington, Tennessee so that Dr. Sale could practice medicine with his brother-in-law Dr. Guilford Marvin Duckworth.
Lola Anne went to John C. French primary school in Cuero and moved with her family to Victoria in 1931 to finish school at Patty Welder High School. She attended the University of Southern California and the University of Alabama, where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and met her future husband Craig Perkins Bade. They married in her parents' home in Victoria on June 5, 1941, only months before the start of World War II. That event marked the beginning of a decade of moving around the country as Craig pursed his military career and then his medical education. They first went to Moffatt Field in California where Craig was trained as an instructor in Air Force primary flight training. From there they went to Rankin Academy in Tulare, Ca. While at Rankin, Lola Anne and the other officer's wives served as mentors to the new trainees' wives and helped them to find housing to be with their husbands.
Craig went on to train in, and master the P-51, but the war ended before he could be deployed. Craig then decided to attend medical school. After medical school and several years of training in ophthalmology, Lola Anne and Craig moved back to Victoria in 1951 so Dr. Bade could go into practice with Dr. Sale, his father in law.
Lola Anne was deeply involved in matters relating to her faith, her family, and the history of our country. She was a member of, and served as an Elder of, the First Presbyterian Church of Victoria. She served in various leadership capacities (elected or not) of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Daughters of the American Colonists, the Colonial Dames, Victoria Preservation, and the committee to restore the Victoria County Courthouse.
Lola Anne and Craig were blessed to have a large and loving family. Lola Anne was predeceased by Craig, her husband of 63 years, her three sisters, Allen Connor Boothe, Mazie Sale Hill and Pat Sale Kemper. She is survived by her three daughters, Lanier Bade Hollingsworth, and her husband, William Hollingsworth, Jr. of Hurst, Texas; Lauren Bade Cone, and her husband, Dr. Howell Anson Cone of Fredericksburg, Texas; and Nancy Bade Fuller, and her husband, Drew R. Fuller, Jr. of San Antonio, Texas; her grandchildren, William Craig Hollingsworth, Katherine Anne Hollingsworth, Aschely Cone Wilford and her husband Paul Sikes Wilford, Anson Sale Cone, Caroline Elizabeth Cone, Caroline Fuller Tompkins and her husband Thomas Eugene Tompkins, Jr., Elizabeth Lanier Fuller, and Craig Robinson Fuller; and her great grandson, Thomas Eugene Tompkins III.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you make a donation in Lola's name to the Admiral Nimitz Museum Foundation, the Fredericksburg Christian School or the Wounded Warrior Project.
A memorial service will be held for Lola Anne on Saturday, November 24, 2012 at First Presbyterian Church, 2408 North Navarro, Victoria, Texas.