Johnnie Maye Holder

© Marietta Monitor

1 Oct 1999, pg 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Johnnie Maye Holder, 66, of Thackerville were Monday at 2:00 p.m. in the Southside Baptist Church, Gainesville, Texas, with Rev. Casey Campbell, minister, officiating.

Mrs. Holder was born February 23, 1933, in Wellington, Texas, and died September 24, 1999, in the Gainesville Memorial Hospital. She was the daughter of Johnny and Annie Kelley Arrington.

Mrs. Holder worked for Weber Aircraft and had been a cosmetologist for over 17 years. She and Eugene Holder were married May 19, 1957, in Gainesville. Mrs. Holder was a member of Southside Baptist Church, Gainesville.

Survivors include her husband, Eugene Holder of Thackerville; two sons, Michael Eugene Holder, also of Thackerville, and Jerry Beard of Seattle, Washington; two daughters, Linda Die of Eugene, Oregon, and Brenda Durpe of Reno, Nevada; six brothers, Leon Arrington, Bobby Arrington, Randal Arrington, Don Snider and Jimmy Arrington, all of Gainesville, and James Hamontree of Maryland; three sisters, Dorothy Schneider of paonla, California, Juanita Duran of California, and Joyce Tullio of Colorado; four grandchildren and six great- grandchildren.

Serivces were directed by Clement-Keel Funeral Home, Gainesville, with interment in Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville. Men of Southside Baptist Church served as pallbearers.