Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at First Baptist Church, Abilene, with Palmer McCown officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park Cemetery, directed by Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home, 542 Hickory, Abilene. Serving as pallbearers will be Rodney Holloway, Ryan Benter, J.L. Cole, Roy Jones II, Ken Brown, and David Stovall. The family will receive friends at a visitation 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Rena was born February 11, 1917 in Cooper, Texas to Jesse O. Harris and Ollie Little Harris. She graduated from Iatan High School (1934) in Mitchell County, Texas. In 1936, Rena moved from Iatan, Texas to Abilene, Texas to attend Draughon’s Business College. She married Ralph P. Holloway, Jr. on August 20, 1938 in Abilene, Texas. Rena was a homemaker; worked for Royce Brooks Garage as a bookkeeper; was a dispatcher for D & W Furniture and Appliance and later for B & J Furniture Company as a bookkeeper; and was an executive secretary for the Abilene Board of Realtors, retiring in about 1980. She was an active member of First Baptist Church; a member of Bible Study Fellowship and AARP; a volunteer with Hospice of Abilene since 1984; and a member of RSVP and LLL Club (at church) and Majestic Sounds (Senior Adult Choir at church). Rena (along with her husband, Ralph) was named “Volunteer of the Year” in 1995 by Hospice of Abilene. In January of 2010, she moved to Decatur, Texas to be near her son.
Rena was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ralph Holloway, Jr. (June 28, 2002); four brothers, Loyce Harris, Olen Harris, L.L. “Mike” Harris, and Paul Harris; and three sisters, Blanche Adams, Melba Curtis, and Ann Harris.
Survivors include her son, Ralph P. Holloway, III and wife, Jane Ann, of Decatur, Texas; two grandchildren, Rodney Philip Holloway and wife, Julie, of Potosi, Texas and Renee’ Holloway Garrett, of Lewisville, Texas; and a great-grandson, Zachary Garrett.
Memorials may be sent to Hendrick Home for Children, P.O. Box 5195, Abilene, Texas 79608 or Hospice of the Big Country, 4601 Hartford, 2nd Floor, Abilene, Texas 79605.
You may view and sign the guestbook at www.elliotthamilfuneralhome.com
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