Jane Holder

Funeral services for Mrs. Jane Holder, 90, of Carthage, Texas will be 2:00 p.m. Sunday, April 29, 2012 at the First Baptist of Carthage with Rev. Freddy Mason and Rev. Steve Jackson officiating. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Family visitation will be 6-8:00 p.m. Saturday night at the funeral home. Mrs. Holder died April 25, 2012 in Carthage, Texas. Mrs. Janie Marie English Holder was born June 14, 1921 in Carrizo Springs, Dimmit County, Texas. She was the youngest of six girls born to the marriage of Alonzo Bailey and Sallie Brown English. She was the daughter of a South Texas cattle family raised on ranches in south Texas where the work would take them. Jane was schooled in Cline schools then worked with her father as a true cowgirl. She was a telephone operator at Laughlin Air Force Base where she met Royal William Holder and they married on Sept 13, 1945 at the end of WWII. Royal brought her to the Snap Community to work for Cities Service Oil Company. She worked many years for the Hawthorn Dry Goods Store and continued her life as a rancher raising calves on the family ranch. Mrs. Holder was a longtime member of the O.E.S. Chapter #797 receiving her 50-year pin. She was a devoted member of the First Baptist Church of Carthage and the Fidelity Sunday School Class. Jane was a blessed and deeply loved woman with a sharp whit shared with her many family members and friends. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Royal in 1970 and sisters, “Butch” Eula Samuels, Alpha Roach, Carrie Mae Malone, Eloise Hill, Josephine Hall and a daughter-in-law, Pat Holder. Mrs. Holder is survived by her devoted sons, Bill Holder and wife Mary Sue of Carthage and Jim Holder and wife Judy of Carthage; grandchildren, Angie Brumley and husband Philip of McKinney, Joe Holder of Carthage, Jon Holder and wife Tammy of Carthage; great grandchildren, Korey Gonzales and wife Crystal of Carthage, Katrina Gonzales of Plano and Kade Holder of Carthage; great, great grandchildren, Trena and Zoe Gonzales of Carthage; a niece, J. Lee Hunger of Junction; numerous other relatives and a host of friends. The family suggests donations to Mission Carthage or Heartsway Hospice.

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Jane Holder

June 14, 1921 - April 25, 2012