His efforts this year was unusually successful with about 1,000 conver-
sions. Fourteen years ago he was transferred to the Nebraska Conference
and moved to this state serving as pastor at Mavale, Byron, Carlton and
other places and coming from Gretna to Overton. At these places are
friends who with those of this community mourn his death.
    Funeral services were held from the Methodist church in Overton
on Saturday, April 14th and his body shipped to Ohio for burial in the
family vault.
                           ______________________
                               CARD OF THANKS

    We wish to take this means of extending our thanks to the friends
and neighbors for the kind assistance, floral offering and singing
during the death and bereavement of our beloved husband and father.
Mrs. E.L. Hollingsworth and family.

"The Overton Herald," April 13, 1923, Page 1, Column 4.

    We have the sad duty to report the passing of Mr. Nelson E.
Hollingsworth, of Lexington, Nebraska, December 16, 1967, at a local 
hospital. He entered the hospital on Friday evening, and succumbed
the next morning. He had been suffering from several illnesses, but
his death was unexpected and is deeply regretted. He had operated 
Hollingsworth Motel in Lexington since 1947 and had been a local 
businessman since 1935, coming from Overton in 1923.

    Nelxon E. Hollingsworth, familiarly known as "Red," was born on
April 26, 1900, at Brandt, in Miami County, Ohio, the son of Rev. Edw.
Lee Hollingsworth and Edna Barrere his wife. He married Ruby Bolen
on Jan. 27, 1937, at Lexington, Nebraska, who survives.

    Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the First Methodist
Church, Lexington, the Rev. James K. Irwin officiating. Burial
took place at Greenwood Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers included Maj.
Donald Liehs, Paul Brown, Frankie Cook, Max McHale, Keith Bourne and
Stephen Anderson. Active pallbearers were Larry Carroll, Mickey Blivens,
Louis O'Con, Ronald Teetor, Victor Smith and William Kelly.

    Besides his wife Ruby, surviving are a brother Clarence Hollingsworth,
Omaha, one sister, Mrs. Veo White, Lexington, a nephew, Robert White,
Cheyenne, Wyoming. In addition to his parents, one sister and an infant
brother preceded him in death.

    Hollingsworth Motel is located on East Highway 30, Lexington,
Nebraska.

(Courtesy Veo H. White, combined from two newspaper accounts, published
in Lexington, Nebraska, newspapers, one being the Lexington Herald.

              Cincinnati, Ohio, City Directory - 1825

Hollingsworth Thomas, soap-boiler and tallow-chandler, corner Race
        and Greene. (Nativity) Ire. (Page 50 of a very helpful little
        old book! Courtesy Cincinnati Public Library, History Department.

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