Obit – Ms. Susan Holland
The angels in heaven are rejoicing as one of their sweet children has joined them in her heavenly home to spend all eternity. Ms. Susan Quinton Duke Holland’s family was at her bedside when the Holy Spirit filled the room and she was called to glory.
She was pronounced deceased at 6:42 p.m. Tuesday evening December 10, 2024 at her Carver Lane home in Lebanon by Gentiva Hospice of Lebanon at the age of 63. Ms. Holland was suffering from renal failure.
Ms. Holland was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. A service to celebrate her life was scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday afternoon December 13th from the Trinity Full Gospel Church in South Carthage. The church pastor, Pastor Jimmy Green, officiated at the celebration. Sis. Glenda Butler Smith delivered the eulogy with David Holland leading the opening prayer. Her brother-in-law Dan Burgess, recited a reading left by Susan. Certainly, the Holy Spirit filled the church sanctuary as her life was celebrated. Interment followed in section two at the Ridgewood Cemetery with Pastor Gordon Lee delivering the benedictory prayer.
Born Susan Kay Quinton in Morristown in Hamblen County, Tennessee, she was one of two daughters of well-known East Tennessee Pentecostal pastor, the Rev. James Blevins Quinton, who was called home at the age of 67 on October 19, 2007 and is survived by her mother, retired Pentecostal pastor, Sis. Lois Ann Seals Quinton who now resides in Lebanon.
Ms. Holland was a 1979 graduate of the York Agricultural Institute in Jamestown which was founded by the late Alvin C. York in Jamestown in 1926.
She was a member of the Trinity Full Gospel Church and had formerly served as the church clerk.
Ms. Holland was retired from the Wal-Mart Corporation having previously served as the assistant store manager in Lebanon before being promoted as head of security and was based at the Hermitage Wal-Mart. Before her retirement in 2017 she had been a Wal-Mart employee for thirty years.
Surviving in addition to her mother, Sis. Lois, left behind to mourn her passing are her two sons, Trent Duke and Tyler Duke and a grandson, Peyton Duke all of Lebanon and her loving sister who had been assisting her mother with her sister’s care is Debbie Quinton Burgess and husband Dan also of Lebanon.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
