Teresa Holden

Terry was born, a beautiful, bright baby girl, on October 27, 1955 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the first child of Doug and Pat Humphreys. As a child, she enjoyed the fields and forests of Indian Springs School, in Birmingham, Alabama, where her father was a math professor. In the coming years, she proved to be not only beautiful, but also intelligent and athletic.

After the family moved from Birmingham, Alabama to Huntsville, she attended Virgil I. Grissom High School, where she was an honor student, a cheerleader, president of the 1974 senior class and its valedictorian.

After graduation, Terry had a very successful career with Xerox and gave birth to her first child, Shanna. In December of 1984, Terry met the love of her life, Graham Holden, married him, and moved to Athens, Georgia, where Terry continued to work while Graham attended law school at the University of Georgia. During those years, she gave birth to two more cherished daughters – Rhiannon, now a third year resident in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, and Madison, a budding cosmetologist at the Health and Style Institute in Kennesaw. Terry lived life to the fullest, enjoyed Alabama and Georgia Tech football, and loved her family and friends. She was generous and kind to a fault, always willing to help a friend or even a total stranger. Her interests included reading, arts and crafts, and she became an accomplished artist and a skilled interior decorator.

Terry lost her long, courageous battle with cancer on September 12, 2015. She is survived by her husband Graham, her daughters Rhiannon, Madison and Shanna Bomar (husband Chris), her granddaughter Lily, her sisters Janet Humphreys and Nancy Jones, their husbands Mark Izard and Jericho and her brother David Humphreys and his wife Leslie, sister-in-law, Suzanne Walker and her niece Megan Walker.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held at two o’clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at The Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Cartersville with Priest Mary Erickson officiating. Interment will immediately follow in Sunset Memory Gardens.

The family will receive friends for one hour prior to service time at the church.

In lieu of flowers please consider a contribution in Terry’s name to Advocates for Bartow’s Children http://advochild.org/

Please visit www.owenfunerals.com to post tributes and sign the on-line register.

Owen Funeral Home, 12 Collins Dr. Cartersville, GA 30120 has charge of the arrangements,