[3] Lula Owl attended Cherokee Boarding School on the Qualla Boundary,[4] and in 1907 she began at the Hampton Institute in Virginia.

[5] Though founded as a school for African-Americans, from 1878 to 1923 over one thousand Native American students attended Hampton, including Owl and her siblings.

Lula Owl graduated in 1914,[2] then spent a year teaching Catawba children in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

She spent two years as the nurse of St. Elizabeth's Episcopal School on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

[4] When she was 84 years old, Gloyne started bowling,[11] which is described in a 1981 remembrance written by Kays Gary, a reporter for The Charlotte Observer.