Services for Billie Lee Mildred Lackey Holt, 92, of Ada are 1:00 p.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church, Revs. Jerry Wells and Harold Ware will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Holt passed away Sunday, January 14, 2018 at a local nursing home.
Billie Lee Mildred Lackey Holt was born on January 7, 1926 during the day in Norfork, Baxter County, AR to Lee Bryan and Della Virginia Silvertooth Lackey.
In 1932, the family moved from Norfork, AR to Kiefer, OK. Billie was ten years old and was given a piano. She played by ear, but finally taught herself to play by note. In 1940, the family moved to Clinton, AR and in January, 1941, the family moved to Fittstown. She graduated from McLish High School in 1944. While attending school, she worked nights at the Fittstown Telephone Office. Her parents owned Lackey’s Grocery in Fittstown, and she also worked there.
She married Lewis Hampton “Hamp” Holt April 15, 1944. He preceded her in death October 3, 1994. She and her family lived in Fittstown, Council Hill, Seminole, Tioga, ND, Outlook, MT, Poteau and Ada. During the time they lived in Seminole, she worked at the telephone office. While living in Tioga, she was a member of the Tioga Women’s Bowling Association “600 Club”. She was active at the First Baptist Church, Tioga and a member of several church committees. She was also part of a women’s singing group. She worked at Heinle Pharmacy in Tioga.
In Ada, Billie was active in the North American Bluebird Society. She gathered information, maintained a “bluebird trail”, and gave talks to school children and local organizations. She attended the First Baptist Church, Ada and was part of the Senior Adult Choir and the Faith Sunday School Class.
Survivors include a son, James Alan Holt and wife Jean of Ada; daughter, Judith Waters and husband Cletis of Ada; her grandchildren, Tami L. Thompson and husband Charles “B.J.”, Ada, Sonya D. Halsted and husband Earl of Glendale, AZ, Melissa Garner, Oklahoma City, Jamie L. Hutchinson and husband Andy, Edmond and Jacob Holt and wife Jessica, Fort Smith, AR; her great-grandchildren, Michael Halsted and wife Megan, Killeen, TX, Melanie Rhynes and husband Travis, Ada, Branch Garner, Yukon, Brooke Garner, Oklahoma City, Sarah Thompson and Charles Isaac Thompson, of Ada; her great-great-grandchildren, Sophia Hutchinson, Edmond, Aubrey Halsted, Killeen, TX and Evelyn Rhynes of Ada; two brothers, James Lackey and wife Barbara, Stonewall and Lewis Lackey, Sr. and wife Geneva, Quitman, AR; and sister, Janelle Robinson and husband Vernon, Fittstown.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, L. B. Lackey, Jr.; two sisters, Wilma Bunyard and Irene Peters; and an infant brother.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the First Baptist Church, Fall’s Creek Fund, 521 S. Broadway, Ada, OK 74820.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
