Frances Holly Mortensen

Frances “Holly” Mortensen, age 97, left this world behind and chose to be with Jesus forevermore at Heritage Place Memory Care Assisted Living Home in Fort Worth, Texas, on Wednesday, June 10, 2015. She had suffered from the disease we know so little about – Alzheimer’s.

Born May 16, 1918, in Nashville, Tennessee, she lived in Nashville, Tennessee as a young girl, later moving to Kansas and eventually moving to Texas. She worked as a Retail Clothing Buyer, a position that allowed her to travel to all major cities of commerce in the United States.

Before her illness she was a member of Genesis Methodist Church in Fort Worth for several years and attended Park Avenue Baptist Church as a young lady growing up in Tennessee. She read her Bible daily until her eyesight faded and Alzheimer’s took her comprehension. She loved to pray to her heavenly Father and called out to Him all the days of her adult life.

Survivors include her longtime companion, George Don Proffitt, her half-brother, James Whitmore and adopted family including friends and family members: Bob and Beth Proffitt, John and Karen Dickinson, William R. and Margaret Ann Little, Bernice Proffitt, Rodney and Paulinda Proffitt, Darryl and Amy Scholar, Tom and Erika Parker, Greg Grimes and many other children of all ages. George Proffitt and Holly Mortensen lived together as partners in life for over thirty years; however, both made the choice not to go through a formal marriage process. Although Holly Mortensen was not legally related to the aforementioned family members, she was accepted as family by all and especially for the love and care that she shared with her partner, George D. Proffitt.

She was preceded in death by her father Alford Holly, her mother, Teresa (George) Holly Whitmore, and her brother, Horace. She was also preceded by a husband, Marvin Mortensen.