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Lawrence Hollier Services Held in Opelousas Today
OPELOUSAS—Funeral services for Lawrence Hollier, 48, of Opelousas, principal of the Leonville High School for the past 16 years, were to be conducted this afternoon at 4 o’clock in the St. Landry Catholic Church.
Hollier died yesterday at Foundation Hospital in New Orleans. He had been failing health for 18 months and had been seriously ill for the past several weeks.
Burial was to be in the church’s adjacent cemetery.
Hollier was born in Opelousas, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. “Hop” Hollier. He attended Louisiana Normal in Natchitoches, now Northwestern State College, and after receiving a teacher’s certificate began his profession at Port Barre as a classroom teacher. In 1927 he was made principal of the Pecanniere Elementary School and remained there nine years. He was appointed principal of the Leonville school in 1936 the same year he received his BA degree from Southwestern Louisiana Institute.
Hollier was considered one of the outstanding principals in the state and he, his faculty, and students had been cited many times in the educational fields. He held membership in the Knights of Columbus, National, Louisiana, and St. Landry Education Associations.
Surviving Hollier are his wife, the former Lilly Guidroz, a son, Lawrence Jr.; a daughter, Lilly Ann; one brother, C. B. Hollier, all of Opelousas, and one sister, Mrs. J. J. Whittenberg of New Orleans.
- [S545] Douget, Susan Burleigh, "Sous Cette Pierre Repose": Tombstone Inscriptions of the Old St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery, Opelousas, Louisiana, p. 310, section 16, plot 2831.
HOLLIER
Richard Martin
Aug. 6, 1882
Dec. 15, 1937
Gladys Perrault
Aug. 15, 1894
Sept. 22, 1986
- [S243] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, entry for Lilly G. Hollier, 1990, SS no. 439-66-8878.
NAME: Lilly G. Hollier
SSN: 439-66-8878
BORN: 4 Jan 1903
DIED: 7 Jan 1990
STATE (YEAR) SSN ISSUED: Louisiana (1962)
- [S359] St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery (Opelousas, Louisiana), Grave Markers, (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), photograph, gravestone for Lilly G. Hollier, section 12, plot 2056; photographed by Mark Edwin Hollier, 15 April 2013.
- [S271] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana; Roll: 819; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0001; Image: 633.0; FHL microfilm: 2340554.
Record for Lawrence A Hollier
- [S446] U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989, R. L. Polk, compiler, Opelousas (St. Landry Parish, La.) City Directory, 1958 (Dallas, Texas: R. L. Polk & Co., 1958), 172, entry for "Lilly C Hollier".
Lilly C (Lawrence) Hollier tchr Leonville Elem Sch r536 E Grolee
- [S266] Find A Grave, Find A Grave, Lilly Guidroz Hollier, Find A Grave Memorial# 85668610, accessed 2 Jan 2014.
Lilly Guidroz Hollier
Birth: Jan. 4, 1903
Death: Jan. 7, 1990
Mother of Lilly Ann Hollier
Family links:
Spouse:
Lawrence Hollier (1904 - 1952)
Burial:
Saint Landry Church Cemetery
Opelousas
St. Landry Parish
Louisiana, USA
Created by: Deborah Hollier
Record added: Feb 24, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 85668610
- [S354] "St. Landry Parish Marriage Licenses, 1807 - Present", (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), Lawrence A. Hollier and Lily Agnes Guillory, no. 14-0587, 17 December 1927.
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