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   OA Online Obituaries.
   
June 24, 2000

Permian Basin Obituaries

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   ODESSA  Dortha  Elyn  Hollingworth, 76, passed away Thursday, June 22,
   2000, at Medical Center Hospital.
   
   Services  will  be  held  at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 24, 2000, at First
   Baptist  Church  with  the  Rev. Dr. Ernest Easley officiating. Burial
   will  be  in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Funeral arrangements by Frank W.
   Wilson Funeral Directors.
   
   Miss Hollingworth was born April 10, 1924, in Corsicana, Texas, to the
   late Ray O. and Pearl Murdock Hollingworth.
   
   "Dot"  graduated from Iraan High School in 1941 receiving an award for
   12  years  of  perfect  attendance  in  the  Iraan  School System. She
   graduated  from  Texas  Womens  University in 1945, received a masters
   degree  in  1960  from  Sul  Ross  University. She taught in the Ector
   County  School District 35 years, serving as elementary music teacher,
   junior  high  choral  director and secondary counselor. She retired in
   1984.
   
   Dot  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Gamma,  Texas  Music  Educators
   Association,  Texas  State  Teachers  Association,  National Education
   Association  and  Classroom  Teachers Association. She was a long-time
   member  of  the  First  Baptist Church and the Medical Center Hospital
   Auxiliary where she was known to make the best popcorn in town.
   
   She is survived by her best friend, Dorothy E. Prince; her brother and
   sister-in-law,  Ramon  J.  and  Virginia  Hollingworth of Little Rock,
   Ark.;  her  niece  and nephew, Hal Hollingworth and Raellyn Cockerham,
   also  of Little Rock; cousins, Marianne Settles Melton of Minneapolis,
   Minn.,  Joe  Dan Settles and Tim Settles of Ratliff City, Okla.; uncle
   and  aunt,  Dan and Lucille Settles of Duncan, Okla.; and dear friends
   which are too numerous to mention.
   
   The  family  suggests  memorials  to  Harp Fund or Music Department of
   First Baptist Church.
   
   (www.wilsonfuneral.com)
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