Ada Holloway

TORRINGTON, WYOMING...........Memorial services for ADA G. HOLLOWAY 99,will be held at 10:00a.m. Saturday, June 2, 2007 at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel with The Reverend Mary Jellison officiating. Cremation has already taken place. Ada died at Community Hospital on Tuesday, May 29, 2007. Memorials have been established to either the Torrington Senior Friendship Center or the Special Touch Program at Community Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Ada was born July 21, 1907 in Gospar County, Nebraska the daughter of Frank and Lettie (Banta) Johnson. She grew up and received her early education in Gospar County PS 28. The family moved to Denver, Colorado for four years and then to Bertrand, Nebraska where she graduated high school in 1924 and worked for one year for 1st State Bank. She attended Business College in Denver for one year and then in 1928 she moved to Anaconda, Montana where she worked for Inter-Mountain Transportation until 1942 when she moved to Washington. She worked several places including Seattle and Bremerton. Ada married Rolly Stevenson in 1942 in Missoula, Montana. They lived in Montana for a while before moving to South Dakota and back to Montana to work at Anaconda for Inter-Mountain Transportation. She also worked at Kalispell, Montana General Hospital before starting their own bus company there. Rolly died in 1948. She moved to Alaska in 1951 where she worked at the Fairbanks airport. She married Ennis 'Holly' Holloway in Fairbanks in 1952. She quit the airport and worked for a laundry for two years, for Waxburg Construction Company, and then worked for Alaska Airlines as a ticket agent off and on until 1971. Ennis died in 1960. Shemoved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa where she worked at the Cedar Rapids Hospital. She retired in 1973 and moved to Prescott, Arizona for one year, then to Silver Spring, Maryland to live with a niece until her niece died in 1988. Ada moved to Boca Raton, Florida before moving to Torrington in 1990. Ada is survived by a great niece Roxanne Wilson and her husband Dick of Veteran, Wyoming; a great nephew Raleigh Sorenson and his wife Susan of Bushnell, Florida; four great-great nephews, Fred Wilson and his wife Erin, Joe Wilson and his wife Ann Marie, Hunter Sorenson and Travis Sorenson; two great-great nieces Anna Collins and her husband Mike and Sara Kosmicki and her husbnd Levi; and four great-great-great nieces and nephews Colton, Kaylee, Coy, and Myles. In addition to her husbands she was preceded in death by her parents; one sister; and one niece.

Ada Holloway

July 21, 1907 - May 29, 2007