May 9, 1949 – Jan. 24, 2018

 

MEADVILLE — A celebration of life service for Patricia Holland Pace, 68, who died Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, after a brief illness, will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Praise Cathedral Church of God, 540 Mississippi 556, in Meadville, with the Rev. Lee Miley, the Rev. Jim Dalton and the Rev. Jarvis King officiating.    

Burial will follow at Byrd’s Chapel Cemetery, Berrytown community in Franklin County, under the direction of Catchings-Sharkey Funeral Homes in Summit.

Visitation will be from 2 p.m. until service time Sunday at the church.

Mrs. Pace was born May 9, 1949, the daughter of Lamar Holland and Cammie Burlison Holland.

She was a loving Christian wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend. A woman of grace and strength, Patricia was utterly devoted to her family and faithfully lived out that devotion her entire life.

Patricia was a longtime resident of the McComb area where she forged many dear friendships. She and her husband, Wayne, owned and operated a successful home and pool construction business in McComb for a number of years. But her love, her joy and her life’s center was the Lord and her family.

She was preceded in death her parents; two sisters, Deborah Holland and Aquilla Holland King; one granddaughter, Cameron Johnson; and parents-in-law, T.J. and Thelma Ellis.

Survivors include her loving husband of 49 years, Glen Wayne Pace; three children, Nikki Pace and mate, Mel Quinn, Tara Johnson and husband, Rick, and Glen Wayne Pace Jr. and fiancée, Heather Johnson, all of McComb; seven grandchildren, Brittany Sasser and husband, Blake, of Bogue Chitto, Brandon Pace, Kyle Williams, Austin Williams and fiancée, Sandy, Kelsi Williams, Chelsea Bates and husband, Cody, and Travis Johnson, all of McComb; seven great-grandchildren; six siblings, David and Barbara Holland, Carolyn and Frank Roberts, Mary Ann and Jerry Warren, Glen Holland and Sharman Hart, all of Natchez, and Charles and Rita Holland of Pensacola, Fla.

Pallbearers will be Austin Williams, Kyle Williams, Rex Mohon, Gene Anding, Aaron King and Chad Gamberi.