Mrs. Nellie Ann Petty Hollis, age 82, of 515 Grambling Ferry Road, Gaffney, passed away Wednesday, January 18th, in her home.
Wife of Victor Hollis, she was born in Mooresboro, NC and was a daughter of the late Fred and Daisy Hopper Petty.
Nellie was a member of Suck Creek Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by siblings, Archie Petty, Alice Thompson, and Minnie Smith; and two grandchildren.
She leaves to cherish loving memories: her husband, Victor Hollis, of the home; five sons, Thomas “Button” Hollis, James Richard Hollis, Robert “Bunyan” Hollis (Tequita), and Ronald Anthony “Man” Hollis, all of Gaffney, Nathan Lee Hollis, of the home; two daughters, Margaret Lipscomb (Woody), of Gaffney and Dorothy Hollis Littlejohn, of Spartanburg, SC; two sisters, Gracie Smith of Gaffney and Lula Lee (Ernest), of Shelby; twenty-five grandchildren; a host of great and great-great grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
A Funeral Service will be held Monday, 2:30 p.m. in the Gilmore Mortuary Chapel with The Rev. Arthur J. Smith officiating. Interment will follow in Suck Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.