Patricia "Pat" Holloway

She told Leah a while back that she "wanted to go to New Prospect Baptist church again, just one more time". So, on Thursday, March 14, at 1 O'clock P.M., she will be at New Prospect for visitation with family and friends. Then, at 2 O'clock her home going service will begin. Her empty shell will be laid to rest at Shiloh Baptist Church next to her husband.

Along with her husband, James Harold Holloway, she is predeceased by her parents, Ray and Katie Thompson, her brother Robert, grandson, Mason Joel Walding and Great-Grandson, Elijah.

Left to cherish her memories and yearn for her cooking are: children and their spouses, Leah and Charles Walding, John Harold and Pamela (Pam) Holloway, Teresa and Michael "Brett" Hutcheson, 15 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, her very special "sister" Janice (Jan) Woods, several nieces, nephews, cousins, Leah's fur-baby, Winnie, and many friends who were not related by name, but considered her family through heart.

Her culinary talent seekers-known far and wide will long for her recipes and the delightful aromas from her kitchen and table. She was heard to say many times that many men would look at beautiful women and their mouths would water. She said, "They look at me and their mouths water because they are hungry and they want me to cook something!"

She loved everyone she met and (in her words), always "had a time keeping Harold straight!"

She was a caring, compassionate nurse. She graduated nursing school in April of the same year she turned 50. That said, she said "there's proof you can teach an old dog new tricks."

When Jordan recently told her that she was the best woman she had ever known, she quipped, "Don't be putting me up on the pedestal. Someone will knock me right off!"

In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes donations in her name be given to Daysprings Hospice, the Wounded Warrior Project, or the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.