George Holland

Homer - The Reverend George Alfred Holland died Monday, May 22, 2017, after a short illness from metastasized melanoma in his brain. Services were at 1:00 p.m, Saturday, May 27th at the First Presbyterian Church, Homer, LA, and at 11:00 a.m, Saturday, June 3rd at Central Presbyterian Church, 200 E. 8th Street, Austin, TX. George is survived by his wife of almost fifty years, Patricia Gladney Holland; their four children: Laurel Holland and her husband Greg Freed, Scott Holland, all of Austin; Kirk Holland and his wife Stephanie of Bryan, TX, and Grace Holland of Austin. They have enjoyed seven grandchildren: Taylor Gladney Hollland, Margaret Gladney Holland (Maggie), James Charles Gladney Holland, all of Bryan; Sofia Holland Freed, Zachary Holland Freed, Alexandria Holland Washington and George Carver Washington V of Austin, seven nephews in the Dallas area and a host of friends. George was born July 11, 1931 in Sioux Falls, SD when his father was Superintendent of Schools and pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Craig, Nebraska. The family moved to Dallas in 1938 when his father became an executive with the Boy Scouts. George graduated from Sunset High School, attended North Texas University in Denton, TX and graduated from SMU in 1953. He served in the US Army as a Counter Intelligent Agent in Japan and Korea. After being discharged from the army in Korea, he and a friend toured Asia and Europe. He worked as a radio announcer in Dallas before attending Teacher's College at Columbia, New York, and teaching English, drama and speech at MacArthur High School in San Antonio for four years. He entered Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1964 where he met and married his wife Trish. After graduation in 1968 he served four years as pastor of Hope Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, twenty-four years as pastor of Central Presbyterian Church in Waco, TX, two years as Interim Pastor at the Church of the Eternal Hills in Frazier and Winter Park, Colorado. George was preceded in death by his parents George and Fola Holland of San Antonio and his brother William Lloyd Holland. He is survived by his sister-in-law Jeanne Holland, San Antonio, TX and five nephews: Bill Holland, Jr., San Antonio, TX, Bob Holland and his wife Jeannine, Brad Holland, Sr., Brian Holland and his wife Shelly, Blake and his wife Mary Jane, all of the Dallas area, and a host of former parishioners and friends. Memorials may be given to Presbyterian Village of Homer or Austin Presbyterian Seminary, 100 East 27th Street, Austin, TX 78705.

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