Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, February 8, 1949
ANSON,Feb 8--Last rites will be held at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church here for Thomas Lee Holland, 70, who died Monday morning in Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene.
The Rev. L. A. Doyle of Floydada, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Henry Chambers, pastor of the Anson Baptist Church.
Funeral arrangements are in charge of Lawrence Funeral Home.
Mr. Holland was born April 19, 1878, in Alabama. He moved to Texas in 1898 but returned to Alabama in 1900 to marry Nora Bartlett. They made their home in Alabama until 1904 when they moved to Jones County near Anson.
A former city marshal at Anson, Mr. Holland also served as superintendent of the water works. Since 1923 he had operated a cotton gin here and owned and operated gins in Funston, Hamlin, Rochester and Haskell.
Mrs. Holland died in 1943.
Survivors are his sons, Elmer Holland of Hawley, George of Abilene, Hub of Anson, Bartlett of Stamford, T.L. of Sagerton, and Charles of Fort Worth; two daughters, Mrs. A.H. Roberts of Avoca, Mrs. M.D. Taylor of East St. Louis, Ill.; three brothers, John Holland of Mumford, Ala., Homer Holland of Linesville, Ala., Charley Holland of Rome, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. Henry Shaw of Grapeland, Mrs. Lena Smith of Taladega, Ala., and Mrs. Lula Knowles of Birmingham, Ala.
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, February 8, 1949
ANSON,Feb 8--Last rites will be held at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church here for Thomas Lee Holland, 70, who died Monday morning in Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene.
The Rev. L. A. Doyle of Floydada, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Henry Chambers, pastor of the Anson Baptist Church.
Funeral arrangements are in charge of Lawrence Funeral Home.
Mr. Holland was born April 19, 1878, in Alabama. He moved to Texas in 1898 but returned to Alabama in 1900 to marry Nora Bartlett. They made their home in Alabama until 1904 when they moved to Jones County near Anson.
A former city marshal at Anson, Mr. Holland also served as superintendent of the water works. Since 1923 he had operated a cotton gin here and owned and operated gins in Funston, Hamlin, Rochester and Haskell.
Mrs. Holland died in 1943.
Survivors are his sons, Elmer Holland of Hawley, George of Abilene, Hub of Anson, Bartlett of Stamford, T.L. of Sagerton, and Charles of Fort Worth; two daughters, Mrs. A.H. Roberts of Avoca, Mrs. M.D. Taylor of East St. Louis, Ill.; three brothers, John Holland of Mumford, Ala., Homer Holland of Linesville, Ala., Charley Holland of Rome, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. Henry Shaw of Grapeland, Mrs. Lena Smith of Taladega, Ala., and Mrs. Lula Knowles of Birmingham, Ala.
Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, February 8, 1949
ANSON,Feb 8--Last rites will be held at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church here for Thomas Lee Holland, 70, who died Monday morning in Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene.
The Rev. L. A. Doyle of Floydada, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Henry Chambers, pastor of the Anson Baptist Church.
Funeral arrangements are in charge of Lawrence Funeral Home.
Mr. Holland was born April 19, 1878, in Alabama. He moved to Texas in 1898 but returned to Alabama in 1900 to marry Nora Bartlett. They made their home in Alabama until 1904 when they moved to Jones County near Anson.
A former city marshal at Anson, Mr. Holland also served as superintendent of the water works. Since 1923 he had operated a cotton gin here and owned and operated gins in Funston, Hamlin, Rochester and Haskell.
Mrs. Holland died in 1943.
Survivors are his sons, Elmer Holland of Hawley, George of Abilene, Hub of Anson, Bartlett of Stamford, T.L. of Sagerton, and Charles of Fort Worth; two daughters, Mrs. A.H. Roberts of Avoca, Mrs. M.D. Taylor of East St. Louis, Ill.; three brothers, John Holland of Mumford, Ala., Homer Holland of Linesville, Ala., Charley Holland of Rome, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. Henry Shaw of Grapeland, Mrs. Lena Smith of Taladega, Ala., and Mrs. Lula Knowles of Birmingham, Ala.
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, February 8, 1949
ANSON,Feb 8--Last rites will be held at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church here for Thomas Lee Holland, 70, who died Monday morning in Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene.
The Rev. L. A. Doyle of Floydada, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Henry Chambers, pastor of the Anson Baptist Church.
Funeral arrangements are in charge of Lawrence Funeral Home.
Mr. Holland was born April 19, 1878, in Alabama. He moved to Texas in 1898 but returned to Alabama in 1900 to marry Nora Bartlett. They made their home in Alabama until 1904 when they moved to Jones County near Anson.
A former city marshal at Anson, Mr. Holland also served as superintendent of the water works. Since 1923 he had operated a cotton gin here and owned and operated gins in Funston, Hamlin, Rochester and Haskell.
Mrs. Holland died in 1943.
Survivors are his sons, Elmer Holland of Hawley, George of Abilene, Hub of Anson, Bartlett of Stamford, T.L. of Sagerton, and Charles of Fort Worth; two daughters, Mrs. A.H. Roberts of Avoca, Mrs. M.D. Taylor of East St. Louis, Ill.; three brothers, John Holland of Mumford, Ala., Homer Holland of Linesville, Ala., Charley Holland of Rome, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. Henry Shaw of Grapeland, Mrs. Lena Smith of Taladega, Ala., and Mrs. Lula Knowles of Birmingham, Ala.
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