Extracted from The Pasadena Citizen (Pasadena, TX)
Sunday, January 16, 2005

HOLLAND

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ashby Holland, 64, of LaPorte, Texas, will be held Monday at 2:00 p.m. at the Groveton Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Lewis Jones officiating. Interment will follow in the Bennett Cemetery.

Mrs. Holland was born May 30, 1940 in Waco, Texas and passed away on January 12, 2005 in Houston, Texas. She was retired from AT&T in telecommunications and was of the Baptist faith.

She was preceded in death by her father Wilson Herman Ashby.

She is survived by her husband Rodger N. Holland Jr. [sic Sr.] of LaPorte, Texas; Children Tami and husband Gerald McDaniel of Richland Hills, Texas, Scott and wife Leslie Holland of Deer Park, Texas, Rick and wife Noemi Holland of Deer Park, Texas, Janice and husband Robert Parmer of Pasadena, Texas, Laura and husband Steve Braden of Pasadena, Texas, and Rodger N. Holland, Sr. or [sic Jr. of] La Porte, Texas; mother, Eunice Fitzgerald Ashby; brother, Billy Charles Ashby; and 14 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

Her sons and grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive visitors from 4-6 p.m. Sunday at Groveton Funeral Home Chapel. Groveton Funeral Home Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.

Groveton Funeral Home
1019 W. First
Groveton, TX