Obituaries

Ruby Jewel Hodges, 105, longtime resident of Coolidge, entered her heavenly home on Oct. 10, 2020. Graveside services will be held at the Coolidge Cemetery on Tuesday, Oct.

June 28, 1959 – October 9, 2020

John Marion Holloway, 94, completed his earthly race on Oct. 3, 2020, at approximately 8:30 a.m., in Waco, at Hillcrest Scott & White Baylor Hospital. He was born June 22, 1926, in Roane, to Arthur Burton Holloway and Lula Pearl Reagan. He lived in Roane until entering military service in the U.S. Army’s 11th Airborne Division, the “Angels Division,” and served in the Pacific theater in the Philippines and Japan during World War II. He attained the rank of Sergeant. He was on a troop transport ship headed for the invasion of Japan when an atomic bomb dropped on each of two Japanese cities.