Hollie Bell Dixon

Hollie Bell (Farr) Dixon passed peacefully from this life to the next on October 10, 2023, surrounded by the love of her family after suffering an unexpected and devastating stroke. Hollie had been a resident of Huntsville, Texas since 2009, after having resided in her adopted hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana for more than thirty years. Hollie was born on April 9, 1942, in San Augustine, the "Cradle of Texas," the youngest of eleven children to parents John Enoch Farr and Sara Norwood Farr, who were both descendants of pre-Republic of Texas pioneers. Hollie's great-great-great Uncle, Edwin Oswald LeGrand, signed the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico as a delegate from San Augustine.

Hollie was an unconventional but intensely loving mother who believed that life was all about fun and who viewed rules as impediments to be ignored. When her children were little, she would sometimes ask them, "Don't you want to stay home and play instead of going to school? I can write you a note." After being widowed at the age of 28, she moved to Dallas to seek more opportunity for herself and her three young children. While living in Dallas, she met her soulmate and loving husband of 47 years, Roger Dixon. Roger was a Vietnam veteran and proud member of the United States Navy for 26 years. Hollie loved being a Navy wife and was always the life of the party, making many friends while the family was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia and New Orleans, Louisiana. There were no limits to Hollie's love for her family--from 2003 until Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, flights attendants at Southwest Airlines nicknamed Hollie "the flying nanny" because she flew from Houston to New Orleans every Friday and back to Houston again on Sunday so that she could care for her infant grandson in Houston during the week.

Hollie was a unique, fiercely independent, larger-than-life personality filled with joy, exuberance, spunk, and compassion. She loved all people and would speak to complete strangers anywhere and everywhere as if they were old friends. She often said, "if you can be anything, be kind." Her children were not allowed to have birthday parties unless everyone was invited, and her three children got birthday presents three times a year on each other's birthdays because she never wanted them to feel unhappy or not special. Hollie had a deep and personal faith in God but wasn't too keen on organized religion because she thought it divided people. There will not be a funeral service because she did not want one, but the family plans to throw a big New Orleans-style party during Mardi Gras season to celebrate her life. Everyone will be invited because Hollie never knew a stranger.

Hollie is survived by her husband, Roger Dixon, her three children, daughter Belinda Beek and husband Joachim, daughter Lisa Gibson and husband Sonny, and son Curg Click and wife Lore Haug, along with granddaughter Sarah Roman McDonald and husband Barry, grandson Madison Gibson, grandson Andreas Beek, and great-grandchildren Kasey Gibson, Verlynn McDonald, William Gibson, Amelia Gibson, and Samantha McDonald, brother Patrick Farr and wife Pat Pat, sister June Sullivan and husband Charlie, and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Hollie's family extends their heartfelt thanks to the doctors, nurses, and staff at Huntsville Memorial Hospital, Memorial Hermann Life Flight, and Memorial Hermann Hospital, and to everyone who has reached out to offer their support and comfort to the family at this difficult time. If anyone wishes, they may donate in Hollie's memory to the American Stroke Association-- www.stroke.org, or to the charity of their choice.

"Beautiful, sweetest, dearest Mama...until we meet again, may God keep you in the palm of his hand."