Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Walnut Creek Baptist Church in Austin. Burial will be in Walnut Creek Baptist Cemetery by Austin-Peel and Son Funeral Home.
Mr. Hollar was born and raised in Amarillo. He was a 1965 graduate of Amarillo High School and attended Amarillo College. He was a Navy veteran where he was one of the support personnel at the research base at Byrd Station, Antarctica. He was part of Operation Deep Freeze. His other tours were in New Zealand and Puerto Rico.
After his discharge from the Navy, Mr. Hollar attended Texas Tech University and the University of Texas where he earned his bachelor degree in biology in 1974. He received his master of arts in agricultural economics in 1976 from Texas A&M University.
Mr. Hollar was employed as a commodity broker for Merrill Lynch in Dallas, Little Rock and Fort Smith, Ark. He was a senior livestock analyst with Merrill Lynch in New York City and a cattle trader in Houston. For the past 13 years, he was an insurance agent in Houston. He earned the designation of LUTCF in the fall of 1997. He had moved to Austin in June of 1997.
Survivors include his wife; Marilyn; two sons, Charles Griffith Hollar and Neal Calcote Hollar, both of Austin; and his sister, Martha Sue Hollar Lusk.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Walnut Creek Baptist Church in Austin. Burial will be in Walnut Creek Baptist Cemetery by Austin-Peel and Son Funeral Home.
Mr. Hollar was born and raised in Amarillo. He was a 1965 graduate of Amarillo High School and attended Amarillo College. He was a Navy veteran where he was one of the support personnel at the research base at Byrd Station, Antarctica. He was part of Operation Deep Freeze. His other tours were in New Zealand and Puerto Rico.
After his discharge from the Navy, Mr. Hollar attended Texas Tech University and the University of Texas where he earned his bachelor degree in biology in 1974. He received his master of arts in agricultural economics in 1976 from Texas A&M University.
Mr. Hollar was employed as a commodity broker for Merrill Lynch in Dallas, Little Rock and Fort Smith, Ark. He was a senior livestock analyst with Merrill Lynch in New York City and a cattle trader in Houston. For the past 13 years, he was an insurance agent in Houston. He earned the designation of LUTCF in the fall of 1997. He had moved to Austin in June of 1997.
Survivors include his wife; Marilyn; two sons, Charles Griffith Hollar and Neal Calcote Hollar, both of Austin; and his sister, Martha Sue Hollar Lusk.