Lovina Skjolsvik

RICHLAND HILLS -- Lovina Loeb Skjolsvik, 79, died unexpectedly on November 24, 2012.

Service: 10 a.m. Thursday, November 29 at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, 7421 Glenview Dr, North Richland Hills with interment at Greenwood Memorial Park.

Visitation: 6 p.m. Wednesday with the Rosary Service to began at 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

For memorial donations, please consider a gift to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, a place that she loved, or something even closer to her heart, becoming an organ donor.

Lovina was born on the family farm in Raleigh, North Dakota and was the third oldest of ten children. She attended Mount Marty boarding school in South Dakota and ventured to Texas in 1954 where she married Ronald Skjolsvik.

Her interests included travel with her children and siblings, photography, reading, gardening, sewing and knitting. She loved animals and cared for many during her life. She was an active member of St. John's Catholic Church and an avid supporter of the arts.

She was preceded in death by her husband Ronald Skjolsvik and her parents, Dayo and Cordelia Loeb.

Lovina is survived by her nine siblings and their spouses; Maynard, Edwin and Esther, Harlin and Loretta, Abraham and Sheila, Theodore, James and Mary Jo, Tommy and Rose, Louis and Brenda, Roberta and Ed, and her five children and their spouses; Karen Skjolsvik and Tony Cash, Valerie and Joe Seagraves, Jason and Stacey Skjolsvik, Doug and Vonda Skjolsvik and Erik and Pamela Skjolsvik and eight grandchildren; Jason, Blake, Chris, Chase, Lexi, Lauren, Lola and Nik.