Theron Wayne Holland's Obituary
AMARILLO SERVICES - Graveside services at 2:00 pm Sunday, September 25, 2005 in Citizen's Cemetery with Rev. Bryan Knowles, Pastor of Community Fellowship Church in Clarendon, officiating. INTERMENT - Citizen's Cemetery in Clarendon. Mr. Holland was born to William Howard Holland and Clara Eleanor Beavers Holland in Amarillo on June 5, 1933. He married Velma Evone Heathington on December 6, 1948 when he was 15 and she was 16 years old. They were together for 56 years. After 55 years of marriage, they learned that they were 6th cousins, descendants of Thomas Camp III. Mr. Holland lost his father to a lightening strike when he was 6 years old. He was the middle son of 5 brothers. He had to go to work at age 10 to help support his younger brothers. He worked in a hatchery, grocery stores, as a farm hand, and as an adult he was a farmer, delivered freight, was a warehouse manager and for almost 40 years was a salesman in electrical supplies. He worked for Cummins Supply Co. in Amarillo, C. B. Anderson Electric in Tulsa, OK, Southwest Electric in Oklahoma City, and when he retired in 1998, he was with Techline, Inc. in Amarillo. He traveled the Texas Panhandle, western Oklahoma, southern Kansas, eastern New Mexico and eastern Colorado. He made many good friends among his customers who valued him for his honesty and dependability, for his friendly face, his cheery smile and the thousands of doughnuts he brought with him over the years. He was always ready to go the extra mile for his friends and his family. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY - his parents, Howard Holland and Eleanor Holland Martin; his brothers Harold Leon Holland, Garland Lonzo Holland, and Murl Howard Holland. SURVIVORS - his wife of 56 ½ years; three sons, David Theron Holland and wife Mary Markey of Omaha, Nebraska, John Mitchell Holland and wife Freda White Holland, and Jerry Dunn Holland of Clarendon; 2 daughters, Laura Lisa Holland of Iowa Park and Nancy Leann Holland Lee and husband Richard of Carrollton; 13 grandchildren, Lisa Jean Holland Lafnear, Christopher Dunn Holland, Patricia Evone Holland, Amanda Leann Williams Willoughby, Mary Ann Holland Kenney, Shelly Kay Holland Blum, Lauren Rena Williams, Sarah Michele Holland, Alana Austin Williams, Mark Wayne Holland, Ashley Nichole Holland, Morgan John Holland and Gabriel Theron Holland; 4 step grandchildren, Amanda Lee, Michelle Lee, Preston Lee, and Victoria “Tori” Meeks; 6 great grandchildren, Beau Yarman, Emilee Blum, BreeAnn Lafnear, Carly Blum, John Francis Alexander “Jack” Kenny, and Kaleb Mitchell Blum; and one step great grandchild, Keyaira Kallie; one brother, Bob Holland of Amarillo; and his very dear friend of many years, Carl Williams of Kingfisher, OK. MEMORIALS- THE CHILDREN’S REHABILITATION CENTER, 1250 WALLACE BLVD, AMARILLO, TEX 79106
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