Obituary published in Claiborne Parish Trails (1996, No.1) from an undated newspaper clipping found in the estate of Kermit Knighton of Gibsland in 1975:
Miss Fay HOLSTUN, died at 5 o'clock on the morning of June 25, 1930 at a Shreveport sanitarium. Miss HOLSTUN was a veteran teacher of North Louisiana. She gained her A.B. degree at the Mt. Lebanon College and began her teaching career at the age of 16. She has been almost continuously active in the teaching profession since that time and, with the exception of a short period of teaching in Texas, taught in North Louisiana. For a considerable time she has was instructor in the Mt. Lebanon College. In 1909 she came to Gibsland, La., taking a position in the high school department of the local school as teacher of English and Latin. So versed was she in the details of her work that she never needed the aid of a textbook, but could instantly quote from memory, giving paragraph and page number of any portion of the subject matter.
She had requested that she be buried from the school where she had spent so many years of service and that the pallbearers be selected from the boys who had been her students. Previous to the services, the body lay in state in the high school auditorium attended by a guard of honor composed of members of Gibsland Boy Scout Troop No. 16. The services, held at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, were conducted by Rev. J. C. Cox, pastor of the Gibsland Baptist Church, of which Miss Holstun was a member, and music was furnished by the combined choirs of the Baptist and Methodist churches with special musical numbers by Bryon Cox and W. W. Todd. By special proclamation of Mayor J. N. Hough, all business houses in town were closed during the services. Interment was in the family lot in the Gibsland cemetery where she was laid by the side of her father, who had passed away only a month previously.
Survived by her mother, Mrs. J. D. Holstun, Sr., five brothers: Courtney Holstun of Roswell, NM, Harry Holstun of Dallas, TX, J.D. Holstun, Jr., & Frank Holstun of Gibsland, LA; two sisters: Mrs. G.W. Peyton of Grand Cane, La. & Mrs. M.S. Jones of Gibsland, La.; ten nieces and nephews.
[Obituary transcription provided by Sue Johnson.]
Miss Fay HOLSTUN, died at 5 o'clock on the morning of June 25, 1930 at a Shreveport sanitarium. Miss HOLSTUN was a veteran teacher of North Louisiana. She gained her A.B. degree at the Mt. Lebanon College and began her teaching career at the age of 16. She has been almost continuously active in the teaching profession since that time and, with the exception of a short period of teaching in Texas, taught in North Louisiana. For a considerable time she has was instructor in the Mt. Lebanon College. In 1909 she came to Gibsland, La., taking a position in the high school department of the local school as teacher of English and Latin. So versed was she in the details of her work that she never needed the aid of a textbook, but could instantly quote from memory, giving paragraph and page number of any portion of the subject matter.
She had requested that she be buried from the school where she had spent so many years of service and that the pallbearers be selected from the boys who had been her students. Previous to the services, the body lay in state in the high school auditorium attended by a guard of honor composed of members of Gibsland Boy Scout Troop No. 16. The services, held at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, were conducted by Rev. J. C. Cox, pastor of the Gibsland Baptist Church, of which Miss Holstun was a member, and music was furnished by the combined choirs of the Baptist and Methodist churches with special musical numbers by Bryon Cox and W. W. Todd. By special proclamation of Mayor J. N. Hough, all business houses in town were closed during the services. Interment was in the family lot in the Gibsland cemetery where she was laid by the side of her father, who had passed away only a month previously.
Survived by her mother, Mrs. J. D. Holstun, Sr., five brothers: Courtney Holstun of Roswell, NM, Harry Holstun of Dallas, TX, J.D. Holstun, Jr., & Frank Holstun of Gibsland, LA; two sisters: Mrs. G.W. Peyton of Grand Cane, La. & Mrs. M.S. Jones of Gibsland, La.; ten nieces and nephews.
[Obituary transcription provided by Sue Johnson.]
Obituary published in Claiborne Parish Trails (1996, No.1) from an undated newspaper clipping found in the estate of Kermit Knighton of Gibsland in 1975:
Miss Fay HOLSTUN, died at 5 o'clock on the morning of June 25, 1930 at a Shreveport sanitarium. Miss HOLSTUN was a veteran teacher of North Louisiana. She gained her A.B. degree at the Mt. Lebanon College and began her teaching career at the age of 16. She has been almost continuously active in the teaching profession since that time and, with the exception of a short period of teaching in Texas, taught in North Louisiana. For a considerable time she has was instructor in the Mt. Lebanon College. In 1909 she came to Gibsland, La., taking a position in the high school department of the local school as teacher of English and Latin. So versed was she in the details of her work that she never needed the aid of a textbook, but could instantly quote from memory, giving paragraph and page number of any portion of the subject matter.
She had requested that she be buried from the school where she had spent so many years of service and that the pallbearers be selected from the boys who had been her students. Previous to the services, the body lay in state in the high school auditorium attended by a guard of honor composed of members of Gibsland Boy Scout Troop No. 16. The services, held at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, were conducted by Rev. J. C. Cox, pastor of the Gibsland Baptist Church, of which Miss Holstun was a member, and music was furnished by the combined choirs of the Baptist and Methodist churches with special musical numbers by Bryon Cox and W. W. Todd. By special proclamation of Mayor J. N. Hough, all business houses in town were closed during the services. Interment was in the family lot in the Gibsland cemetery where she was laid by the side of her father, who had passed away only a month previously.
Survived by her mother, Mrs. J. D. Holstun, Sr., five brothers: Courtney Holstun of Roswell, NM, Harry Holstun of Dallas, TX, J.D. Holstun, Jr., & Frank Holstun of Gibsland, LA; two sisters: Mrs. G.W. Peyton of Grand Cane, La. & Mrs. M.S. Jones of Gibsland, La.; ten nieces and nephews.
[Obituary transcription provided by Sue Johnson.]
Miss Fay HOLSTUN, died at 5 o'clock on the morning of June 25, 1930 at a Shreveport sanitarium. Miss HOLSTUN was a veteran teacher of North Louisiana. She gained her A.B. degree at the Mt. Lebanon College and began her teaching career at the age of 16. She has been almost continuously active in the teaching profession since that time and, with the exception of a short period of teaching in Texas, taught in North Louisiana. For a considerable time she has was instructor in the Mt. Lebanon College. In 1909 she came to Gibsland, La., taking a position in the high school department of the local school as teacher of English and Latin. So versed was she in the details of her work that she never needed the aid of a textbook, but could instantly quote from memory, giving paragraph and page number of any portion of the subject matter.
She had requested that she be buried from the school where she had spent so many years of service and that the pallbearers be selected from the boys who had been her students. Previous to the services, the body lay in state in the high school auditorium attended by a guard of honor composed of members of Gibsland Boy Scout Troop No. 16. The services, held at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, were conducted by Rev. J. C. Cox, pastor of the Gibsland Baptist Church, of which Miss Holstun was a member, and music was furnished by the combined choirs of the Baptist and Methodist churches with special musical numbers by Bryon Cox and W. W. Todd. By special proclamation of Mayor J. N. Hough, all business houses in town were closed during the services. Interment was in the family lot in the Gibsland cemetery where she was laid by the side of her father, who had passed away only a month previously.
Survived by her mother, Mrs. J. D. Holstun, Sr., five brothers: Courtney Holstun of Roswell, NM, Harry Holstun of Dallas, TX, J.D. Holstun, Jr., & Frank Holstun of Gibsland, LA; two sisters: Mrs. G.W. Peyton of Grand Cane, La. & Mrs. M.S. Jones of Gibsland, La.; ten nieces and nephews.
[Obituary transcription provided by Sue Johnson.]
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