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The Downey Eagle 
Friday, August 27, 1999
Vol. 7 No. 27

Services to be Saturday for Lola Elwood at age 77
DOWNEY-Services will be held Saturday in Palm Desert for Lola Elwood of Palm Desert, the former 
owner of The Tropicana in Downey and the operator for many years of Lola's House of Beauty in 
South Gate, who died Aug. 24 after a brave bout with cancer. 
She was 77, born in Alva, Oklahoma Jan. 22, 1922, the daughter of Alvin "Johnny" and Helen Walker. 
The family moved to Los Angeles when she was seven, her father working as a Los Angeles police 
officer and her mother as a seamstress. 
Following graduation from Huntington Park High School, she was employed by McDonald Aircraft in 
World War II. She attended and graduated from beauty school, and married Jack Elwood. They lived 
in South Gate. After Lola's House of Beauty in South Gate, she opened Lola Elwood's Hairstyling in 
Huntington Park. She was active in the Huntington Park Soroptimist Club and was a member of the 
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. 
Her husband, Jack, had several businesses including Jack's Car Wash and Jack's Restaurant. The couple 
traveled and entertained extensively both during their careers and after their retirement to Palm Desert. 
Survivors include her husband, Jack of Palm Desert; her son and daughter-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Bruce 
Elwood of Orange County; two granddaughters, Mrs. Bernie (Suzy) Martin and Sherry Elwood, also of 
Orange County, and a sister, Jenilee Walker, of Purcell, Oklahoma.