Background
Shropshire, Lola Vane was born on September 3, 1940 in Geary, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Steve Coleman Brewer and Edith Irene (Page) Brewer Wright.
Shropshire, Lola Vane was born on September 3, 1940 in Geary, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Steve Coleman Brewer and Edith Irene (Page) Brewer Wright.
Associate of Arts in Journalism, Bacone College, 1981; Bachelor in History, Northeastern State University, 1983; postgraduate, California State University, Dominguez Hills, since 1994.
Clerk, Land Title Insurance Company, San Diego, Oklahoma, 1960-1963; pricing and inventory clerk then manager, University of California-San Diego Bookstores, 1963-1965; secretary, Lone Star Producing Company, 1966; order filler, Interstate Library. Svc., Oklahoma City, 1967; regional secretary, receptionist, Preferred Risk Insurance Company, Oklahoma City, 1967-1969; postmaster substitute, United States Post Office, Oktaha, 1983-1990; art coordinator, staff historian, library, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1990; site supervisor, Oklahoma History Society Thomas-Foreman History Home, Muskogee, since 1991. Director Texas Road, Honey Springs Battlefield Project, 1994-1995.
Volunteer Indian Room, Bacone College Library. Member Oklahoma History Society, Oklahoma Anthropol. Society, Alpha Chi, Phi Alpha Rho, Phi Theta Kappa.
Married Gale Alan Shropshire, December 24, 1964 (divorced December 1991). Children: Colin Patrick, Brent William.