Ersa Hollis, teacher, 1966-1967. Mrs. Hollis died on April 15, 1999. This is her picture from the 1967 Echo.
An article about her including her obituary: Ersa Hollis continued family tradition of teaching. By Jacqueline Berlin, Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer. During her early years, she toured southern Tennessee with her parents singing in church revivals. She majored in Latin in college, but in Cobb County, she taught English for 30 years. Ersa Jena Hollis, 60, of Kennesaw died Thursday, April 15, 1999, of cancer.
Mrs. Hollis was born to schoolteachers in Tennessee. During the summers, her family toured in revivals instilling in Mrs. Hollis a lifelong love of Christian music. She graduated from Carson–Newman College, earning a bachelor's degree in Latin. She received a master's in secondary school education from West Georgia College. Mrs. Hollis taught ninth and 10th grade English, mostly at North Cobb High School. She was the adviser for the school annual for five years. A lover of poetry and books, she founded a library at her church, Burnt Hickory Baptist. For 17 years, she worked in the theater wardrobe departments at Six Flags as a seamstress. She enjoyed the different people she met working there, according to her daughter, Alice Hollis of Starkville, Miss. There performers referred to Mrs. Hollis as mother because she kept them straight, her husband, Franklin Hollis, R. said. Her favorite was the Elvis impersonator because her father wouldn't let her listen to Elvis when she was a girl, Hollis said. They all thought she was real smart because she'd beat them in Trivial Pursuit, her daughter said. But while the cast was on stage, she would look at the answers on the backs of the cards, Alice Hollis said. Her children most remember their mother's sense of humor and how active she was despite her years of back pain. She liked to be in things; she didn't like sitting still, her daughter said. Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home in Kennesaw, with the Rev. Mike Stephens officiating. Burial will be 2 p.m. at Hamilton Memorial Gardens in Hixson, Tenn. Survivors include her husband, Franklin G. Hollis, Jr.; one son, Franklin G. Hollis III of Calhoun; two daughter, Rebecca Kay Ivey of Acworth and Alice Anne Hollis of Starkville, Miss.; her mother, Vesta Jones Roberson of Chattanooga, Tenn; one brother, W.V. Roberson of Hixson; two sisters, Lolita R. Woodward of Chattanooga and Vest Ann Roberson of Red Bank, Tenn.; two grandchildren. The family will receive friends from 3 to 7 p.m. today and from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
[Marietta Daily Journal, Saturday, April 17, 1999, pg. 3B]
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