Michael Holland
January 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
I know that I told Buddy, but for the rest of you who remember your cousin, Mike, you will be interested to know that Mike died last September. I think he was about 57 or maybe 59 years old. Very unexpected. He contracted, of all things, Mad Cow’s Disease ( I don’t know the medical name for it.)
Mike was such a good guy! I know it seems that you want to say that when people die, but in Mike’s case, it’s so true. He was always so optimistic, and so funny. I really liked my young cousin. I didn’t get a Christmas card from Nancy, as I always did, and I was puzzled, but I sent her one anyway, and she called me on Saturday morning, when I was so sick, and could barely talk. She told me some medicine that I should take for flu. Little did I know. But I was stunned to my shoes when she told me about Mike. She said that she had been so devastated that she just hadn’t recovered, and hadn’t sent a single Christmas card, and had no Christmas spirit. She and Mike were very, very close.
2 Responses to “Michael Holland”
was mike her son?
By lainie on Jan 10, 2009
Michael was her brother. There are four children of L. C. and Anna Lee Holland. L. C. was my first cousin (son of Lena, Poppy’s sister). The four children are all your second cousins. They are Larry (the oldest) and then Nancy.
Next was Michael, and the baby is Peggy. All of them, except Michael, live in Macon. They are some of those who have no idea of their origin, that is, how and why they came to be Maconites. They all have children growing up there who haven’t a clue that a great-great Aunt Emily McLure Chapman, and James Willis Chapman, migrated to Macon, Georgia in 1943 to take jobs at Warner Robins Air Force Base during the war. Soon after followed Daddy Mac and Mama Mac, and Nell and Buck (all who moved in with us Chapmans in our tiny little two bedroom house), and then came the Hollands. Aunt Lena and Uncle Cleveland Holland bought a little store out in the Belvue area (western part) of Macon. Cecil and Ollie moved in with them, and then came Aunt Lilla and Uncle Joe, and then L. C. and Anna Lee, and they just kept building on to that little house and building on and building on. Oh, the stories to be told!!
Yes, half of Macon is populated, because Emily and Willy moved to that city in 1943 to take jobs at Warner Robins Air Force Base during World War 11. I told my cousin, Larry McLure, why he and all of his clan ended up in Warner Robins when I talked to him recently. He had no idea. Ellen McLure (daughter of Ruth and Buck) didn’t know that was why she was born and raised in Macon, either. Frank and Ann McLure(who died recently) have four children, nine grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren….growing up in Warner Robins….all because of Emily and Willy.
I could go on and on. Oh, yes. Johnnie’s twin sisters, Janet and Janice, live in and around Macon, and always have. They were born, while Cecil and Ollie lived with Aunt Lena and Uncle Cleveland. I get a Christmas card from
Janet every year. Their children have no idea of their origin. For that matter…neither no Janet, nor Janice.
By mother on Jan 11, 2009