Ethel Mae (Atkins) Holder (1918 - 2020)

Born Mar 1918 in Tellico Plains, Monroe, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William Edward Holder — married 12 Feb 1936 in Loudon, Tennessee, United States

Died 2020 at about age 101 in Denver, Colorado, United States

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Biography

Ethel Mae (Atkins) Holder was born in Tennessee.

Ethel Mae (Atkins) Holder was a New Mexican.

Ethel Mae (Atkins) Holder was a Coloradan.

Ethel Mae (Atkins) Holder was a centenarian, living to age 102.

The Life Summary of Ethel (Atkins) Holder:

Ethel was born in Tellico Plains, Monroe, Tennessee in 1918 to Horace & Ella (Tate) Atkins. She lived with her parents in Monroe, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and 1930.^[1][2]

She married Edward Holden who worked mowing yards after he and Ethel married.^[3][4]

Edward took a job in Oak Ridge and assisted with the Manhatten Project. Mom said Edward was the person who wired the bomb 'into the plane' that dropped the bomb on Japan. Afterwards, the Atomic Energy Commission asked Edward to work in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. Edward & Ethel lived in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States many years. Mom also said that Edward rode a bus one hundred (100) miles to the Nevada Proving Ground,^[5] as it was called then everyday.^[6]

Mom recalls a story when she & my dad were stationed in the Territory of Hawaii, 1956, that her landlady came to her to tell her she had a phone call. Mom recalls being very surprised because she only gave the number to her mother, Lula Atkins Hawkins. Mom goes to take the call, and it is Edward! He told her he was in Honolulu, where mom and dad lived, and wanted to see them before he had to fly to Christmas Island.^[7]

Mom & I could not remember how many children Edward & Ethel had, but we do remember them having two (2) sons. Ethel was a vibrant woman as I remember her. She died in 2020, making her a Centenarian. Mom knows this because she stated that Ethel would be 104 this year (2022) had she lived. After Edward retired, they moved to Denver, Colorado, United States, to be near their children and grandchildren. Please see notes. I still want to find sources.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN56-W9J : 3 February 2021), Ethel Atkins in entry for Horace Atkins, 1920.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPHC-B35 : accessed 7 February 2022), Ethel Atkins in household of Harce Atkins, District 4, Monroe, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 14, sheet 6A, line 7, family 104, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2267; FHL microfilm 2,342,001.
3. ↑ Joan Hawkins Whitt
4. ↑ "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN6S-15S : 4 December 2014), Edward Holder and Ethel Atkins, 12 Feb 1936; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 378, Loudon, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
5. ↑ Joan Hawkins Whitt
6. ↑ Joan Hawkins Whitt
7. ↑ Joan Hawkins Whitt
8. ↑ Kimberly Whitt Lindsay