Rains County Leader
April 25, 2006
Funeral services for Haola McElvy, age 87, of Brashear was held at
Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home Chapel at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 11, with
Rev. Guy Mays officiating. Interment was at Greenview Cemetery with Beau
Alcorn, Tanner Alcorn, Colby Hoover, Ryan Stracener, Willie Bob Stracener
and Leeroy Stracener serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers wer Mrs.
McElvy's great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Haola McElvy
passed away Saturday, April 8, 2006, at Presbyterian Hospital in
Greenville. She was born in the Greenview Community on Feb. 25, 1919, the
daughter of Dick and Velma Grayson Potts. She married Maurice McElvy in the
Greenview Community on January 11, 1934. He preceded her in death in 1988.
Mrs. McElvy was a homemaker and a member of the Miller Grove Baptist
Church. Survivors include: three daughters, Faye Stracener of Brashear,
Rosemary Morris and Janie Middleton, both of Sulphur Springs; grandchildren,
Ricky Stracener, Randy Stracener, Rusty Stracener, Dusty Stracener, Cindy
Mills, Stacy Crump and Michelle Bond; 15 great-grandchildren and three
great-great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by one
son-in-law, Jackie Middleton. Memorials may be made to Greenview Cemetery
Association.