Obit of Hollis, Melvin Lafelle - Texas County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 25 Oct 1997

Melvin Lafelle Hollis

TEXHOMA, Okla. - Melvin Lafelle Hollis, 71, died Friday, Oct. 24, 1997.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Texhoma United Methodist Church 
with the Rev. Dane Lemmons officiating. Burial will be in Texhoma, Texas, 
Cemetery by Dawson-Welch Funeral Home.

Mr. Hollis was born in Boise City. He attended Texhoma schools and 
graduated from Texhoma High School.

He married Alice Gens in 1944 at Texhoma.

Mr. Hollis was a farmer and rancher until the past five years, when he was 
employed by the McGarraugh Lease Operations as a contract pumper. He was a 
member of United Methodist Church and the Scottish Rite. He was a past 
Worshipful Master of Texhoma Masonic No. 382 AF&AM and a past Worthy 
Patron of the Texhoma Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Loretta Vick of Perryton, Texas; a 
son, Melvin Hollis of Houston, Texas; two sisters, Louise Wyatt of 

Wimberly, Texas, and DeEtta Phipps of Henrietta, Texas; and five 
grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to the Texhoma United Methodist Church 
cancer fund or Ochiltree General Hospital Hospice of Perryton. Memorials 
will be accepted at the funeral home.

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Amarillo Globe News 26 Oct 1997

Melvin Lafelle Hollis


TEXHOMA, Okla. - Melvin Lafelle Hollis, 71, died Friday, Oct. 24, 1997.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Texhoma United Methodist Church 
with the Rev. Dane Lemmons officiating. Burial will be in Texhoma, Texas, 
Cemetery by Dawson-Welch Funeral Home.

Mr. Hollis was born in Boise City. He attended Texhoma schools and 
graduated from Texhoma High School.

He married Alice Gens in 1944 at Texhoma.

Mr. Hollis was a farmer and rancher until the past five years, when he was 
employed by the McGarraugh Lease Operations as a contract pumper. He was a 
member of the United Methodist Church and the Scottish Rite. He was a past 
Worshipful Master of Texhoma Masonic No. 382 AF&AM and a past Worthy 

Patron of the Texhoma Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Loretta Vick of Perryton, Texas; a 
son, Melvin Hollis of Houston, Texas; two sisters, Louise Wyatt of 
Wimberly, Texas, and DeEtta Phipps of Henrietta, Texas; and five 
grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to the Texhoma United Methodist Church 
cancer fund or Ochiltree General Hospital Hospice of Perryton. Memorials 
will be accepted at the funeral home.
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