Submitted by: Dan Rich

Jessie E. Holland

July 23, 1925 - Nov. 9, 2001

South Bend Tribune 11/10/2001

Jessie E. Holland, age 76, of North Main Street, in Mishawaka, passed away on Friday, November 9, 2001 at Rosewood Terrace Nursing Home in Elkhart of natural causes. Mrs. Holland was born July 23, 1925, to Lue Allen and Lucy (Darby) Peak in Ramer, Tennessee.

On June 16, 1945, she married Romie L. Holland in Marked Tree, Arkansas. He survives. Also surviving are two sons, Tommy Holland and his wife, Nancy of Mishawaka and Dale Holland and his wife, Cheryl of Breckenridge, Colorado; three daughters, Jeanie Horne and her husband, Michael of Elkhart, Barbara Livingston and her husband, Doug of Mishawaka and Becky High and her husband, Kriss of Mishawaka; along with three brothers, Bobby Peak, Earl Peak and his wife, Myrtle, both of Goshen and Robert Peak and his wife, Dean of Memphis, Tennessee. Surviving as well are three sisters, Pearl Hamilton of Goshen, Dorothy Rogers of Corinth, Mississippi, and Marie Taylor and her husband, Bill of Earle, Arkansas, along with 10 grandchildren and 12 great- grandchildren. Mrs. Holland was preceded in death by her parents, and her brothers, Howard Peak, Gene Peak and James Peak.

Visitation for Mrs. Holland will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, November 11, 2001 at Chapel Hill Funeral Home in Osceola. Services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday, November 12, 2001, by Reverend Doug Erickson at the Hillcrest Baptist Church in Mishawaka, with interment to follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Osceola. Mrs. Holland was employed by Farries-McMeekan in Elkhart where she packaged mirror frames for 15 years before her retirement in 1983. Memorial donations may be given in her name to Hillcrest Baptist C hurch in Mishawaka, of which she was a member.