Bob Holman
Bob Holman, 92, of Union City died July 14, 2018, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. Walt Asher officiating. Entombment will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers will be his grandsons and his son-in-law, Mark Layne. Honorary pallbearers will be his granddaughters.
The family will receive visitors from 9 until 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
The family requests memorials be sent to: Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church or Baptist Hospice.
He was born Dec. 3, 1925, in Union City, to the late Robert Halbert and Lula Mabel (White) Holman. On Sept. 24, 1955, he married Alma Gertrude “Trudy” Crawford. She survives.
He worked as an engineer for the former Lear Siegler Plant in Union City, and was also a farmer.
He was a Mason for 70 years, and a member of Sons of the Confederacy. He was a member of Chapel Hill United Methodist Church and Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church.
In addition to his wife, he is also survived by two daughters, Janiece Wright of Dyersburg and Rose Holman Townsend and husband, Jon, of Orange Beach, Ala.; two sons, Mike Holman and wife, Penny, of Union City and Steve Holman of Union City; a son-in-law, Mark Layne of Jackson; a sister, Marilyn DePasquale of Prescott, Ariz.; 13 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by his daughter, Teresa Ann Layne; a sister, Laura Holman White; a brother, George Holman; and a grandson, Benjamin Wright.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.
Published 7.16.18
