Datra Lamont Hollings
1953-04-11 2008-09-22Services were at 2 p.m. Saturday September 27, 2008 in Mount Zion Baptist Church. Burial in Llano Cemetery by Warford-Walker Mortuary, 509 N. Hughes St.
Datra Lamont Hollings was born April 11, 1953, in Amarillo to Jeff Datra Hollings Sr. and Lottie Celle Hollings. He attended Carver High School and graduated from Amarillo High. Datra didn’t stop there. He pursued higher education and graduated from Houston Tillison College.
He was a member of the POPGC Golf Club, Markwell Lodge No. 415, Ozair Shriners No. 146 and Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. He was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church, where he served as an usher.
Datra’s smile, laugh and sense of humor will be greatly missed.
He was preceded in death by his father, Jeff Datra Hollings Sr.; his mother, Lottie Celle Dehorney Moore; his grandparents, Mattie and Luss Dehorney; two brothers, Albert Hollings and David C. Smith; and two sisters, Donna Hollings and Gerita K. Davis.
Survivors include his wife of 31 years, Janet Hollings; a daughter, Nicole Joyner of Lakewood, Colo.; two sons, Datra Hollings II of Amarillo and Devron Hollings of Hawaii; four brothers, Jeff Datra Hollings Sr. of Temple, Weldon Smith and wife Barbara of Denison, Stanley Hollings and Johnny Hollings; three sisters, Danella Jenkins, Denise Jernigan and husband Jimmy and Dianna Douglas and husband Robert, all of Amarillo; five grandchildren, Nauche, Dunyea, Daetrin, Dakarie and Nicole II; and a host of nephews, nieces, cousins and friends.
To my brother I really missed you. And I never will forget that you were trying to call me that Saturday when you passed away and I regret that I didn't return your call unitl the next day. I love you very much but I know you are in a better place. I'm still in shock about you passing away. I still find myself wanting to pick up the phone to call you.
tribute by Denise Hollings-JerniganDatra Lamont, was my b-ro, we were as close as brothers. We talked every week about various things. One thing I miss is when b-ro would call me and tell me what happen on the front nine, (golf) who won the rabbit and who won the squirrel, then later I would hear about the other side, the back nine. Well Datra has played is front nine of life, and now has gone on to the back side, don't get it twisted the back nine is a better place and I encourge all to continue to run the race, like Datra did knowing that God loves you and that the victory is yours. Miss you my brother thanks for everything, even though I did not want the shoes I got them and I walk and play in them, in honor of you.
tribute by Hervey Bolden