Fannie Pearl Holbert's Obituary
FANNIE PEARL SHAW HOLBERT
PEARL WAS BORN OCTOBER 23, 1921 IN NEW LONDON, TEXAS TO FANNIE RAYFORD AND WALTER SHAW. SHE WAS ONE OF SEVEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN A FARMING FAMILY. SHE WAS AT THE DAISY BRADFORD WELL THE NIGHT DAD JOINER BROUGHT IN THE FIRST EAST TEXAS OIL WELL, OCT. 3, 1930. SHE SURVIVED THE 1937 NEW LONDON SCHOOL EXPLOSION LOSING HER YOUNGEST SISTER TO THE DISASTER. SHE WAS A RANGERETTE THE FIRST YEAR GUSSIE NELL DAVIS BROUGHT THE IDEA TO KILGORE JR COLLEGE. SHE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN UNTILL WW II BROKE OUT AT WHICH TIME SHE RETURNED HOME. SHE MARRIED THE LATE BOB HOLBERT JANUARY 19, 1946. SHE WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS, LOUIS MORGAN DRUG OF LONGVIEW AND OVERTON. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW MIKE AND KATHI HOLBERT, HER DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW BETSY AND LARRY TIDWELL, A GRANDAUGHTER ELLYN HOLBERT OF DALLAS AND GRANDDAUGHTER JENNIFER PRICE AND HUSBAND CHAD PRICE OF DALLAS, AND A NUMBER OF NEICES AND NEPHEWS. HER PASSIONS IN HER LIFE WERE HER BELIEF IN JESUS CHRIST, HER CHURCH, WINTERFIELD METHODIST, HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND ALL THE SPORTS SHE COULD WATCH ON TV. WE WILL MISS THIS GENTLE SOUL. WE ASK THAT DONATIONS BE MADE TO WINTERFIELD METHODIST CHURCH.
THE FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE EMPLOYEES AT SONGBIRD ASSISTED LIVING CENTER. THEY TOOK EXCELLENT CARE OF MOTHER DURING THE GOOD TIMES AND MADE THE HARDER TIMES MORE BEARABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Private family burial will be held in Memory Park Cemetery at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, August 10, 2005. A memorial service will follow at 11:30 AM at Winterfield United Methodist Church with the Reverend Mike Lindstrom officiating under the direction of Rader Funeral Home of Longview, 1617 Judson Road. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 PM Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at the funeral home.
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