Dorothy Gene Holoway's Obituary
Dorothy Gene Carlisle Holoway slipped away peacefully Friday, March 15, 2026, the presence of her family. She was 101 years old.
Born in Deckard, Tennessee on March 8, 2025, Dorothy was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. She graduated from Byrd High School and attended Centenary College where she met the love of her life, Navy veteran George Brent Holoway. They married August 3, 1946.
Dorothy's work life began early in her parents' grocery store. She was a radio station news editor, taught school in Sugartown and Dry Creek, a caseworker for the State of Louisiana welfare department, and an assistant juvenile probation officer in Harris County, Texas.
Returning to Beauregard Parish in retirement, she enthusiastically embraced the role of a farmer's wife. Her pickles won first prize at the Louisiana State Fair. She took great pleasure in her needlework, making dresses for her granddaughters, award-winning cloth Santas and whimsical animals. Giving her handiwork away was her joy.
Widowed in 2003, she moved to Sugar Land, Texas, where she built a new life around her family and her church, Christ United Methodist Church. She loved her Jubilee Sunday School Class, crocheting in the Prayer Shaw Ministry, creating sock monkeys, and volunteering as the "produce lady" at the East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry food bank.
Dorothy loved eating ice cream with her great-grandchildren, sharing a cocktail with her son-in-law, and eating oysters with her grandson-in-law. She made the best chicken and dumplings in the world and made more pies than there were people around her Thanksgiving table.
Dorothy is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Thelma and Russell Jones of Sugar Land, Texas; her granddaughters and grandsons-in-law, Stephanie and Dave Stigant of Sugar Land, Texas, and Jenny and Jeff Watkins of Vienna, Virginia; and three great-granddaughters, Veronica, Megan and Willow.
The family expresses its gratitude to Brookdale Sugar Land and Fairmont Hospice for their loving care of Dorothy in her last years.
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