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Grace French Horner Hollrah © Enid Morning News 10-1999 Submitted by: Glenn
Funeral services for Grace French Horner Hollrah, age 79, will be held Wednesday at 10 AM at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Services will be conducted by Rev. Kenneth E. Wade and burial will follow at the Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Ladusau-Evans.
Grace was born February 25, 1920 to Clifford C. and Minnie F. Horner on the farm that her grandfather Harry N. Horner claimed in the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893. She died Saturday, October 23, 1999 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City.
She graduated from Enid high school in 1937 and attended Phillips University for one semester.
On August 24, 1941, she married Roy E. Hollrah at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Grace was a member of St. Paul's for 61 years.
In 1973, after facing the devastating news that she had breast cancer, Grace dedicated herself to reaching out and serving the people of the community. She was a volunteer for the Reach to Recovery program, which has had several thousand people attend since its inception. Grace was the coordinator of the program, which counseled hundreds of mastectomy patients in the state. She was in the Integris Bass Baptist Mastectomy Support Group. Grace was featured in the book "A portrait of Breast Cancer". In her story "A Small Part in Helping," she laments," First we question why, then the tears come, but God has a way of helping us by giving us time."
In 1977, grace served as the first director of the Senior Citizens Center of Garfield County. She also did volunteer work for RSVP, American Cancer Society, Meals on Wheels, and the Mastectomy Support Group. She's was awarded the Oklahoma State Homemaker of the Year in 1979 after serving as president of the Oklahoma Extension Homemakers from 1976 to 1978. She was elected to the Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1978 and was also a member of the Sons and Daughters of the Cherokee Strip Pioneers.
Grace lived under the guidance to "be thankful every morning when you get up, that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and do your best will build in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred other virtues which the idle will never know."
Grace is survived by her husband Roy, their four sons and daughters – in – law, Richard and Roxanna Hollrah of Enid, Robert and Rita Hollrah of Stillwater, Kenneth and Dee Ann Ediger Hollrah of Enid, and Terry and Betty Hollrah of Edmond. Also four grandchildren, Matt Hollrah and his wife Julie, Shelley Hollrah, Cari Hollrah and Nicholas Hollrah, and one brother George Horner of Mary Ester, Florida, and his wife Doris.
Memorials may be made to St. Paul's Lutheran Church or to the charity of your choice.
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