Hollie Knowlton

KNOWLTON Hollie Haines Knowlton was born to Janice and Charles Hilscher on May 18, 1951 - a true beauty from the very beginning. She grew up in Reynoldsburg and San Dimas, Calif., where she graduated from Bonita High School in 1969. She and Bill (Jess) Knowlton were married in 1978, and raised three children together. She deeply loved her family, was a fun, supportive wife, mother, daughter, and grandmother, and made a beautiful, showpiece home for them all. She thoroughly enjoyed her work at Canal Family Dentistry, as well as conducting grassroots political work in Canal Winchester. Hollie took great pleasure in the small things - playing with her granddaughter, cooking, traveling, decorating, sitting on her back porch with loved ones, Neil Young's music, and Turner Classic Movies. Cancer was an element in her life over the years, but it never defined her nor interrupted the things in which she took joy. She was a soldier: brave, strong, and stoic. She also had the world's most beautiful smile, with her famous deep dimples and wonderful laugh - and she laughed often. She is survived by her loving mother, Janice Scanlan; Hollie's husband, Bill Knowlton; her beloved children, Abigail (Brandon,) Twiss, Sara Knowlton, Jess Knowlton; her adored granddaughter, Ella and baby-to-be, Twiss; her special cousins, Toby, Jan, and Billy Applebay; her aunt, Diane Applebay; her close friends, Tracy Huddleson, Marilyn Clemons, Becky Wilkins, and JoAnn McKenna; the larger Knowlton clan: Kathy Touvelle, Jim Knowlton and Linda Klevtrovets (Chuck), their children; and many, many friends. Hollie was predeceased by her brother Charlie Hilscher, her father and her uncle William Applebay. There will be a memorial gathering at the Knowlton home at 128 E. Columbus Street, Canal Winchester, from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, July 11. Her eulogy will begin at 2:30 p.m. Gifts in Hollie's memory may be sent to: The James Hospital or Hospice, who cared for her so kindly, or Neil Young's Bridge School for disabled children in Northern California. Please find online condolences at: www.spencefuneralhome.com.