Nolan county Texas, Obituaries: Ernest J. Hollis

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Submitted by: <dhr1953@hotmail.com> Don Raymond

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Sweetwater Reporter, Friday, August 27, 1993, page 3

The Rev. Ernest J. Hollis died Thursday morning at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital.

Services will be Saturday at 10 a.m. at the McCoy Chapel of Memories with the Rev. Curtis Hollis, the Rev. Mike Haley and the Rev. Billy Roddy officiating. Burial will be in Sweetwater Cemetery under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.

Mr. Hollis was born Feb. 14, 1905, in Cottonwood. He married Ruby Lee Scott on Sept. 16, 1934 in Sweetwater.

He started preaching at the age of 17 and retired from the ministry in 1980, after 55 years of service. He attended Wayland Baptist College in Plainview and Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth. He pastored churches in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. His first church was at the Stamper Community, east of Sweetwater, in 1930. From there, he started the West Side Mission, which met in his home. This later became West Side Baptist Church of Sweetwater. West Side Baptist Church was the first of four churches he started. Following his retirement, he moved back to Sweetwater.

He was preceded in death by one grandson.

He is survived by: his wife, Ruby Hollis of Sweetwater; one daughter, Shirley Crawford of Sweetwater; two sons, Kenneth Hollis of Haltom City and Delbert L. Hollis of DeRidden, Texas; one sister, Ruby Daniel of Sweetwater; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Robert Hollis, Scott Hollis, Hollis Crawford, John Crawford, Mike Yarbrough, Larry McDonald, Jimmy Hollis and Robert Stacener.

Honorary Pallbearers will be the deacons of Lamar Street Baptist Church.