Norman Gregory Holland

Sorrells Funeral Home - Geneva

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Date: Mar 13 2014 5:40 PM

Southern Gospel music executive, Norman Gregory Holland, of Madison, Tennessee, formerly of Geneva, Alabama passed away suddenly at his home in Madison on Monday, March 10, 2014.  He was 54.

 

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 15, 2014, in the chapel of Sorrells Funeral Home in Geneva with Rev. Curtis Holland officiating.  Burial will follow in the Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery with Sorrells Funeral Home and Crematory of Geneva directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Saturday beginning at 1:00 p.m. and continue until service time.

 

In lieu of flowers the family has requested contributions be made to the Norman G. Holland Memorial Fund, c/o Edith Brown, 1209 Glenwood St., Dothan, Alabama 36301.

 

Norman was born August 11, 1959 in Geneva County, Alabama to the late James Edward and Evelyn Mae Nielson Holland, Sr. He was a 1977 graduate of Geneva High School and started his working career early in life at the WGEA radio station.  His passion for gospel music began very early in his life and later became his career.  Norman began his career with the Benson Company in 1980 and served as Vice President and Director of A&R at Daywind Records for 16 years, where he invested into countless artists and ministries within Southern Gospel music.

 

Highlights of his career include developing and orchestrating the “100 Years of Southern Gospel Music” celebration at NQC 2010, as well as receiving a lifetime achievement award from the SGMA in 2012.

 

His laughter was contagious, and his larger-than-life, magnetic personality always lit up any room he was in.

 

Gospel Music has lost one of its most innovative and influential behind-the-scenes personalities and Norman will be greatly missed.

 

In addition to his parents a brother, Jimmy “Jimbo” Holland and a nephew, Paul Wesley Holland, Jr. preceded him in death.

 

Survivors include one sister Edith (Jesse O) Brown, Dothan; one brother, Paul (Olean) Holland, Samson; five nephews: Jesse D. Brown and Joseph (Liz) Brown, all of Dothan, Jeffery (Cecilia) Holland, Geneva, Jonathan Brown, Dothan and Joel Brown, Destin, FL; seven great-nieces and nephews: Zachary Brown, Lucas Brown, Luke Holland, Landon Holland, Hannah Lynn Holland, Sarah Elizabeth Holland and Kinsley Holland; his Southern Gospel music family and other extended family and friends.

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