Dorothy Janet Holman

Born to Alfred L and Cemantha F Warriner in New Orleans on October 28, 1927, Dorothy Janet Holman was the sixth in a family of seven children raised at what is now the E. D. White Historic Site in Thibodaux, Louisiana. “Cotton Top”, as she was affectionately known by her siblings, had a love for art and animals from an early age. When she wasn’t riding her horse Calico, playing hide and seek with her pigs Ginger and Pepper, or caring for Zaco, her pet alligator, she was painting and sculpting with whatever medium she could find.

Dorothy had graduated from Mount Carmel Academy and was planning to return to take her religious vows to become a Carmelite Sister when she met Oscar Meigs Holman II, who had returned from serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II. She fell in love with Oscar and was married to him for 50 years until his passing in 1996.

Dorothy’s love of God, family, and art never waned. Nowhere was this expressed more than when she was working alongside her family to beautify Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church and parish hall in Lillian, Alabama.

Left to remember her are her children Richard Meigs (Carol) Holman, Oscar Meigs (Mary Jo) Holman III, Dorothy Ellen (Kara) Oshana, Marshal Meigs (Cheryl) Holman, and grandchildren Richard Sterling Holman, Rachael Elaine King, Jess Oshana LaFleur, David Ryan Oshana, Jefferson Maples Holman, Oscar Meigs Holman IV, Mary Hayley Holman, Megan Holman Van Horn, Charlotte Nicole Holman, and 8 great grandchildren.