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Mrs. Bonnie Jane Jackson Rives, affectionately known to her grandchildren as "B", passed away peacefully at her home in Hoover, Alabama on August 12, 2021. Bonnie was born on April 27, 1945, in Maryville, Tennessee, and attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she met the love of her life, Joseph Boyd Rives, III. She later graduated from the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, and worked as an elementary school teacher in Nashville for several years until she moved to Hoover, Alabama in 1970. Bonnie had an amazing voice, with which she graced the sanctuaries of Oakmont Presbyterian and later Shades Valley Presbyterian for many years, as well as the...

James W. (Jim) Holloway, 88, passed away in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 8, 2019. He was born on November 30, 1930, in French Camp, Mississippi, the son of John Nolen Holloway and Birdie Ramsey Holloway. He settled in Beaumont, Texas in 1960 where he owned and operated a landscaping business until his retirement in 2014. He was a loyal member of Tolerance Masonic Lodge #1165 and numerous Masonic appendant organizations. He was a past patron of Beaumont Chapter #71 OES. He was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason. He also served the Grand Lodge of Texas as Grand Organist and District Deputy Grand Master for Masonic District 26A. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother and two sisters....