Lola Dee Mathews (Fike) departed this life on April 21st, 2026, in Newport, Arkansas, after an almost three-year battle with stage 4 lung cancer. Lola was born in Evansville, Indiana, on October 6th, 1958, and graduated from Benjamin Bose High School in the class of 1976. Lola started a family on October 19th, 1980, with her best friend, Edward J Mathews, in Shawneetown, Illinois. They welcomed their first child together in 1985 and their last i…
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