Pike County Missouri Obituaries - Kate Douglass Holman

Obituary from The Bowling Green Times,
Bowling Green, MO
Thursday, June 2, 1949,
Page 8, Column 6:

Mrs. Kate Douglass Holman

Mrs. Kate Holman, elderly and highly respected Pike county native born resident departed this life Monday morning, May 30th, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Brown at Curryville at the age of 95 years and 3 months.
Mrs. Holman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Douglas, was born near Frankford, February 27, 1854. On October 16, 1873 she was married to John Holman by Rev. James Duvall, and to that union one child, Margaret, now Mrs. J.K. Brown was born.
Early in life she became a member of the Frankford Presbyterian Church later transferring her membership to the Mt Air Church after moving from Frankford.
In 1896 Mrs. Holman moved to a farm east of Curryville, where she and Mr. and Mrs. Brown resided until in 1947 they moved to Curryville.
In addition to the daughter she is survived by two sisters. Mrs. Frank Brown of Curryville, and Miss Belle Douglas of this city, and two brothers, Jarve Douglas of Frankford and Jerry of Curryville, six nieces, many other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon, June 1st at the Curryville Presbyterian Church by Rev. W>G. Mitchell of Bowling Green with interment in the Curryville Cemetery.
Mrs. Holman spent her entire life in the county of her birth and experienced many of the hardships in the early days of the community and her fund of recollections of those pioneer days were of interest. She was a faithful and devoted wife, mother and friend, and memories of her many good deeds will long be remembered.
We extend sympathy to the bereaved family and friends.