Lois was the Love of my life for 38 years. When I met her I was enjoying country music riding a motorcycle and very involved in car rallyes. I met Lois at a car rallye and we became known in our circle of friends (mostly rallyists) as Lois Carsick and Filled Oliveberry.
Shortly before getting married I talked Lois into traveling the entire length of highway 49 on my Honda 500 from Vinton to Three Rivers south of Yosemite. Shortly after that I sold my motorcycle and settled into married life. I had a 1966 Ford Mustang when Lois and I got married. She loved that baby blue mustang and when it broke down in 1983 she hated to see it sit in the Garage but she was convinced that if we fixed it then someone would steal it. So it sat in the Garage acting as a shelf until 2012 and someone at my work bought it to restore. Lois told Christian that he could buy it as long as she could have a ride in it when it was restored. Lois loved Lawrence Welk's musical family and every Saturday Night we watched Lawrence and family. She especially loved the country singer Clay Hart (looks) and the gospel singer Tom Netherton as well as the duet Guy and Ralna. She later learned to enjoy both kinds of music Country and Western with Colin Raye and Michael Martin Murphy.
Another singer Lois loved was Rex Allen Jr. and one Birthday I gave her concert tickets to see Rex Allen in Wilcox, AZ his home town. We flew to Tucson and Drove to Wilcox and nearly every year after that we would go to Rex Allen Days to see him perform. Lois and I were not big travelers. We went twice to Hawaii, once with her parents and once with mine.
Once we saw the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN we started going every other year or so it seemed. The Country Christmas at the Opryland Lois just loved and told everyone she could about how impressive and beautiful it was. So much so both her family and mine visited there at Christmas also.
Lois second place she loved was Branson, MO. One day at work a fellow employee was telling me about Branson and all the performers that were there. I told Lois about them and we decided to visit. While there we discovered Shoji Tabucchi the best show in town, according to the locals. During that first trip we also discovered that Andy Williams was selling all his holdings in California to build a Moon River Theater in Branson. Lois always loved Andy's voice and now we had a reason to return.
Lois has been a great supporter of everything I do and sometimes I think she makes a better impression than I do at events. Lois has always been there in times where I have needed her for various things. We have always done things together and now I have a void to fill in order to get along with out her. I will truly miss our stimulating discussions sitting in front of the TV watching Bill Maher and agreeing with him about those living in a bubble. Also, watching Monk reruns and being amazed on how little we remember about the first time we saw the episode.
Lois was a member of a Bunco group of ladies who got together for over 30 years. Members of her Bunco group also bowled under the name of Just Babes and Lois got to be a pretty good bowler.
Lastly, Lois was known for her writing. Many people commented on her ability to make places we traveled come to life as if they were there. Lois and her Brother, Jim wrote huge emails regularly. Jim was as good a writer as Lois and there emails were quite long. Sue Coles, the receptionist at the Citrus Heights Career Center loved to read her journals of everywhere we traveled. Sue found Lois’s journals a joy to read.
Lois was loved by so many people; but none more than me. As I said in the beginning She is the love of my life. Lois was to me as Trudy was to Monk it will be extremely hard to move on without her. I truly believe Lois's spirit is in heaven and I know Heaven is a better place because she is there.
With Loving Memory
Phil
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