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Submitted: 10/21/20 • Approved: 10/21/20 • Last Updated: 12/14/21 • R360618-G360618-S3
Thelma Doris
July 21, 1927-August 25, 2012
Wife & Mother
Clyde Junior
July 22, 1929-March 5, 1997
Husband & Father
Married November 10, 1945
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*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Thelma
Thelma Holman, 85, of Amarillo, passed away, Saturday, August 25, 2012.
Thelma Doris (Willis) Holman was born Thursday, July 21, 1927 in McLean, TX to Clyde and Eula (Ayers) Willis. She married Clyde Junior Holman on November 10, 1945 in McLean, TX. She was a retired nurse's aide.
Mrs. Holman is preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her son, Clyde Legene Holman; and her brother, J. C. Willis.
Survivors include her son, John Holman and wife Leslie of Amarillo, TX; two step-grandsons, Thomas Downs of Honolulu, HI and Taylor Downs of Amarillo, TX; one brother. Tommy Willis and wife Clara of Pampa, TX; one sister, Dorothy Conatser and husband Albert of Delta, CO; three grandchildren, Joe Holman, Carman Hulsey and Junior Lee Holman; three great grandchildren, Kloe Holman, Marissa Holman and Trevor Holman; and two great great grandchildren, Kyler Holman and Kayden Holman.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 pm, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at Rector Funeral Home, 2800 S. Osage, Amarillo, TX with Rev. Leonard Forsythe officiating. Burial will follow at 3:30 pm at Stinnett Cemetery in Stinnett, TX.
Mrs. Holman will lie in state at Rector Funeral Home in Amarillo, TX.
(Obit furnished by family member)
*Clyde Junior
STINNETT - Clyde Junior Holman, 67, died Wednesday, March 5, 1997 in Amarillo.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 8, 1997 at Brown's Memorial Chapel in Stinnett with the Rev. Raymond Lewis and the Rev. Billy Lewis, officiating.
Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Brown Funeral Directors.
He was a retired field booster operator for 32 1/2 years at Natural Gas Pipeline Co.
He was a native of Farnell and a former Stinnett resident for 23 years, as well as an Amarillo resident for 9 years.
He married his wife Thelma on November 10, 1945 in McLean. He was a member of Victor Baptist Church.
He is preceded in death by one son, Clyde Legene Holman in 1989 and a grandson in 1973.
Survivors include his wife Thelma Holman of the home; one son, John Robert Holman of Amarillo; two brothers, Richard Holman of McLean, Charles Holman of Clovis, Ca.; four sisters, Barbara Ann Gates of Cassville, Mo., Linda White and Norma Jean Ashley both of Rogers, Ark, Orene Amerson of Amarillo; his grandchildren, Carmen, Junior Lee, & Joe Carl and two great-grandchildren.
Casket bearers will be Marvin Goodall, Joe Roy, Dub Mathews, Tim Arnold, Bobby Arnold Sr., John McCarry, Raford Haskison, Elmer Lee Holman, Bobby Arnold Jr., Bobby Phelan and Frank Pahlmeier.
Memorials may be made to Palo Duro Home Health Care in Canyon and to the American Heart Association.
"A devoted companion, a dedicated father, a loving grandfather, a delightful great-grandfather, and more importantly a devout Christian has journeyed through earth and has reached his celestial home. Never put a question mark where God has put a period. God is too wise to make a mistake."
(Published in Borger News Herald, March 7, 1977)
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Holman
Date of Birth: 22 Jul 1929
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hall
Father's name: J C Holman
Mother's name: Delia McClain
Roll Number: 1929_0004
Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Holman
Birth Date: 22 Jul 1929
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Parnell, Hall, Texas, USA
Father: J C Holman
Father Birth Place: Tennessee
Mother: Delia McClain
Mother Birth Place: Oklahoma
Mother Residence: Parnell, Texas
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Clyde Holman
Death Date: 5 Mar 1997
Death County: Randall
Gender: Male
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Clyde Junior Holman
[Clyde J Holman]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 22 Jul 1929
Birth Place: Parnell, Texas
Death Date: 15 Mar 1997
Father: John C Holman
Mother: Delia McClain
Notes: Aug 1943: Name listed as CLYDE JUNIOR HOLMAN; 26 Mar 1997: Name listed as CLYDE J HOLMAN
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