Obit for Dorothy Hollie Hollis Cross Harman
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
Dated July 4, 2001
For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmon.htm 
1/26/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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Dorothy Hollie Cross Harman, 83, died Sunday. 

A graveside service was held today at the Fairmount Cemetery at Hollis.
 
Patterson Greer Funeral Home of Hollis is in charge of local arrangements.

She was born Oct. 16, 1916 to Ernestine Lance and Grover Cleveland Hollis. 

She was born the first of four daughters. She was raised and educated in Hollis.
 
She became the Society Editor of the Hollis daily newspaper after her high 
school graduation.

She married C.W. Cross of Kirkland, Texas on Dec. 15, 1940 in Hollis at the 
Methodist parsonage.
 
After her husband's death in 1951, she attended Utah State University, receiving 
a bachelor's degree in 
elementary education and social sciences. After graduation she went to work for 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
 
She lived in Washington, New Mexico, Nevada and Oregon. During that time she 
also took several trips to 
Europe and one to Australia.

Survivors include a son, Thomas Hollis Cross of Bothell, Wash,, a daughter, 
Elizabeth Ann Currier of Powell 
Butte, Ore. and four grandchildren, Wendy Marie Brock, Megan MyShook Cross, 
Daniel Hollis Currier and 
Thomas Allen Currier.

She was preceded in death by her parents, both of her husbands and all of her 
sisters.