Funeral services for Synola Mae &8220;Lola&8221; Payne, age 82, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home.

Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery. Visitation is one hour prior to the services at Bayview. To sign the guest book, goto www.bayviewfuneral.com

Lola went to Heaven Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007.

She had been a resident of the Albert Lea Good Samaritan Center for the last six years.

Synola Mae Payne was born May 12, 1924, to William H. and Beatrice (Mathison) Hall in Albert Lea.

She grew up in Albert Lea and married Frank Payne on March 10, 1945, at First Lutheran Church.

The couple moved to Minneapolis in 1950, to California in 1961, and returned to Albert Lea in 1998, after their retirement. Lola had been employed as an LPN.

She was a member of First Luther

Church and had been a Salvation Army member as a young person.

Lola enjoyed quilting and was a lay reader and communion assistant in her church.

She was a community service liaison for her church in Cordova helping with Russian immigrants.

Lola volunteered for many organizations including the National Telephone Prayer Ministry through the Assemblies of God Church and the Food Locker.

Survivors include her daughter, Barbara and husband, Raymond Ramirez of Prior Lake; grandchildren, Heather and husband, Rob Schlegel of Excelsior and their daughters, Arden and Sophia, and Serenity Ramirez of Savage; sisters, Dorothy Waltz and Joy White, both of Albert Lea; sister-in-law, Marie and husband, Clayton Engen of Glenville; and several nieces and nephews.

Lola was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Frank; and brothers, Stanley and Pershing Hall.