Thelma O. Holloway, 83, of Irwin County, Georgia, died Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at Tift Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M., Sunday, January 16, 2005, at Nelson Funeral Home, Fayette, Alabama, with the Rev. Melba Sue Holloway officiating. Interment will follow in Boone Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Visitation will be held from 6:00 until 8:00, Saturday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Holloway was born August 9, 1921, in Walker County, Alabama to the late Noah and Etta Meadows Haley. She was a farm wife and lived in Irwin County since 1977 from Berrien County, Georgia. Mrs. Holloway was a member of Friendship Holiness Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Mrs. Holloway is survived by her children: Margie Roberson, Summerville, SC, Sandra Leslie, Irwin County, Homer Holloway and Randy Holloway, both of Cook County and Linda Simmons, Lowndes County; nineteen grandchildren, twenty-five great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren; three sisters: Tootsie Berry, Orange Springs, FL, Ruth Davis, Ft. Lauderdale, FL and Lois Pugh, Jasper, AL; one brother: Allen Haley, Orange Springs, FL. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willis Lee Holloway, three children, Henry Lee Holloway, Violet Marie Guthrie and Doris Baldree, two brothers and two sisters.