(Washington Post, Jan 1990, sent in by Correspondent Doug Hollingsworth,
Bangor, Maine.) Doug computes the lineage of deceased as Russel K., Jr.9; 
Russell K.8, Sydney P.7; William6; Eli5; Isaac4; Thomas3; Thomas2; 
Valentinel; Henry Hollinworth.)

    Funeral services for Dessie Laborn Hollingsworth, 86, were held 
Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 10 a. m., from the Sharon Primitive Baptist 
Church in Lake. Elder Hilton Moore and Elder Winfred Hollingsworth 
officiated. Interment was made in the Sharon Primitive Baptist Cemetery
at Lake.
    Mr. Hollingsworth passed away on Mon. Sept. 21 (1987) at the Con-
va-Rest Home in Newton. He was a resident of the Goodhope Community 
for the past 50 years. He was a member of the Sharon Primitive Baptist 
Church in Lake. Survivors include his wife, Jewel Hollingsworth of 
Lake: one son, Rev.  Winfred Hollingsworth of Lake, and two grandchildren,
and four great grandchildren.
    Pallbearers were Leon Adams, Jessie Ware, Charles Ware, Bradley Glaze, 
Paul Shoemaker, and Webb Harris.  Ott & Lee Funeral Home of Forest was 
in charge of arrangements. (Scott County (Miss.) Times, about 30 Sept 1987, 
p. 2A, thanks to Dr. Harrold Graham.)

    Ruth Hollingsworth Tuckerman Metters, 71, a Washington (D.C.) native,
and graduate of National Cathedral School who had been a government 
secretary before leaving this area in 1945, died July 20 (1986) at a 
hospital in Nantucket, Mass., after a stroke. She had lived in Nantucket 
since 1969. Before World War II, Mrs. Metters had worked for the Alcan 
Highway Commission and the Republican National Committee. During the war,
she worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).  After 1945, she
lived in New York City, Boston and Spokane, Wash., before moving to 
Nantucket.
    The husband of 43 years, the Rev. Robert G. Metters, died in 1984.
Her survivors include two sons, David S. and Robert G. Metters, Jr.,
both of Nantucket, and three sisters, Laura T. Triest of Annapolis,
Elsa T. Biays of Bluemont, Va., and Alice T. Williams of Washington. 
(Washington Post, Sun July 6, 1986, Der Doug Hollingsworth.)

Long Beach physician D.L. Hollingsworth. Dr. David Lee Hollingsworth, a 
family practice physician in Long Beach, has died at Memorial Medical 
Center of Long Beach. He was 43. ...native of Long Beach ... had battled 
Hodgkin's disease 3 years. Schooling in Long Beach, graduated from Wilson 
High School, where be was a star water polo player on Wilson's first 
All-California Interscholastic Federation championship team. He joined 
the Navy, in 1965 and was a medical corpsman in the Pacific for 4 years,
half that time on Guam during the Vietnam War. He then attended Long Beach
City College and graduated from California State University/Long Beach.
His corpsman work inspired his interest in becoming a physician. 
Hollingsworth entered medical school at the Autonomous University of 
Guadalajara, Mexico.  His internships were in Chicago and residency 
training was at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, Ill., and Memorial 
Medical Center of Long Beach.
    He was in private practice in Fort Bragg in Northern California
until illness caused him to return south. He was treated at Stanford
Medical Center for 18 months beginning in March 1984. He then resumed
practice briefly at Community Intermediate Care Center in Long Beach.

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