Kiowa Co. OK - OBIT:  Abbie Leone Hollis

Submitted by:  David W. Morgan  dmorgan@efn.org
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::Mountain View Cemetery--Mountain View OK

Abbie Leone Hollis was born October 24, 1907 to Andrew M. and Martha Jane
Kinney Hollis at or near Mt. View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma.  She had eight
older brothers and sisters and one younger brother.  Abbie attended college
at Northwestern in Alva, OK; Southwestern in Weatherford, OK, and graduated
from OBU in Shawnee, OK with a degree English.  She taught school for 41
years, teaching English, Spanish and music.  Schools where she taught
include Ocina, Gould, Vinson, Blair, Coopertown, Mountain View, Burns Flat,
Anadarko, Chickasha, Crooked Oak and Star-Spencer.

Wherever Abbie was, she was involved in church work and church choirs;
teaching, singing, leading singing, playing the piano and witnessing for
the Lord.  After retirement Abbie was involved in Literacy Missions,
teaching English as a second language and tutoring people from other
countries.

At the age of 71, Abbie spent 7 months as a Mission Service Corps Volunteer
in Montana, helping to establish Southern Baptist work in that area.

Abbie was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers and four sisters.
 She is survived by 16 nephews and nieces and their families.  She died on
April 25, 1999.  Services were held Friday, April 30, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. at
the First Baptist Church in the Louise Prichard Chapel.  Burial followed at
3:00 p.m. at the Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain View, Oklahoma.

[one of Abbie's sisters was my grandmother, Leta Jane Hollis Barber - DWM]
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