Pat Holshouser
Posted by Kevin A. Wilson on 8 Dec 2006 9:21 pm. Filed under Personal.
It is with great sadness that I heard today about the death of Pat Hollingsworth Holshouser. Pat was the former first lady of North Carolina when her husband Jim was the governor in the mid-1970s, and she is remembered as a remarkable first lady. She had been battling lung cancer for the last two years and died in her home on Wednesday.
Pat was my father’s first cousin on his mother’s side. Her father, Leon Hollinsworth, was a long time chaplain at Wake Forest University. Her twin sister Nancy works in early childhood. Pat has a daughter named Ginny who serves with her husband as a missionary in Southern Mexico. If you would like to read an account of Pat’s life of service to others, it can be found in the Raleigh News & Observer.