Submitted by Emily O'Neal

Rome News Tribune January 24, 1986

Mrs. Holt

Mrs. Myrie S. Holt, 62, 80 Rutledge Road, Coosa community, died Wednesday morning at a Rome hospital after a long illness.
Mrs. Holt was born in Cartersville, June 7, 1923, daughter of the late Everett Shelton and Nellie Brownlow Shelton. Prior to moving to Floyd County 17 years ago, she was a resident of Florida and Dalton. She was of the Baptist faith. Mrs. Holt was preceded in death by her husand, Orville Vincent McDonald, April 30, 1968.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Glenda Castillo and Mrs. Vernell Voyles, both of Rome; two sons, Ray McDonald, Green Cove Springs, Fla. and Steve McDonald, Rome; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Robinson, Green Cove Springs, Fla., and Minnie Shelton, Dalton, a brother, Joseph Shelton, Dalton, 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Heritage Chapel of Jennings Funeral Home with the Revs. Harley Reynolds and Frank Sharp officiating. Interment will be at Oakland Cemetery.
Pallbearers are Ronnie Shelton, Jeff Shelton, Dale Adams, Larry Hunter, Kenneth Shelton, James Umphrey, Emory Voyles and Benny Joe Robinson.

(Note: A notice by the funeral home in the same paper stated that she was preceded in death by her mother, Jan. 7, 1986; she died Jan. 22)

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