LaVersa Holder

HOLDER -- LaVersa. Our beloved mother and grandmother, LaVersa Lousie Holder, is at peace and wrapped in the loving arms of our Lord. She died Sunday, September 4, 2005 at home. She was 71 years of age. Her funeral is set for 2 p.m., Friday in Fitzgerald Funeral Service's Southwood Colonial Chapel, located at 3612 East 91st Street South, Tulsa. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery located on the adjoining property. Rev. Jessica F. Moffatt of the First United Methodist Church will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home until noon on Friday. The casket will be closed for the service. LaVersa was born October 13, 1933 in Toledo, OH. She attended Friends University in Wichita, KS and lived in Blackwell and Ponca City, OK from 1963 until 2003. She owned and operated Hillcrest Manor and Blackwell Nursing Home for over 20 years until her retirement. She resided in Tulsa at the time of her death. Her parents, Oshel W. and Lola E. McAfee preceded her in death. Survivors are her 3 children and their spouses, Randy and Teddie Holder, Bixby, Cindy and Andy Gelmers, Tulsa, and Ann and Steve Foerster, Oklahoma City; as well as 7 grandchildren she loved so much, Sarah Welker and her husband, Lee, Peyton Holder, Madison Holder, Alex Gelmers, Megan Gelmers, Ashley Foerster and Price Foerster. A memorial in LaVersa Holder's memory has been established to provide Bibles to the victims of hurricane Katrina relocated to Oklahoma. Contributions may be sent to LaVersa Holder Katrina Bibles, First United Methodist Church of Bixby, 77 East Breckinridge, Bixby, OK 74008. The Bibles will be inscribed with a notation in LaVersa's memory. Southwood Colonial Chapel, 291-3500.