Nolan county Texas, Obituaries: Mrs. Minnie Lee Hollis

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

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Sweetwater Reporter, Monday, October 9, 1978, page 3
Mrs. Minnie Mae Hollis, 94, a longtime resident of Sweetwater died at 8 a.m. Sunday at Holiday Retirement Center after an extended illness.

Services were at 2 p.m. today in McCoy Chapel of Memories with the Rev. Dan Burrow, pastor of West Side Baptist Church and the Rev. Orvel Brantley, pastor of Lamar Street Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in Sweetwater Cemetery.

Born May 31, 1884, in Callahan County she married Benjamin Franklin Hollis there Oct. 4, 1899. He died in 1950.

Mrs. Hollis had been a member of the West Side Baptist Church since 1936.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ruby Daniel of Sweetwater; a son, Ernest Hollis of Sweetwater; a sister, Amber Sanders of Tulia; 14 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great-grandchildren.

Grandsons will be pallbearers.