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Dollicia Frances Holloway(Woolnough) was born on July 11, 1944. She was the eldest of 4 (f0ur) daughters born to the late John A. Holloway and the late former Edith Mae Myers. She was educated through the Hempstead Public School System. She later graduated from Hempstead High School in 1961 at the tender age of 16(sixteen). it was said she had missed an entire year of school due to a lengthy bout with scarlet fever. Once she recovered, she returned to school and did so well,
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Dollicia was very driven and extremely business savvy. In 1966, she became a first time home-buyer and purchase a home in Roosevelt, New York, which was predominately white neighborhood. Because of her "no nonsense" attitude, she believed if you can "dream", you can "achieve", "rise' to the occasion and "explore" new opportunities. In March of 1970, she discovered she was pregnant with her second child.
Tragically, on December 31, 1970, as she and her husband were returning from a New Year's Eve Party in Massapequa, their Volkswagen Beetle crashed into a guard rail on the Southern State Parkway.
On January 1, 1971, Gary suffered broken ribs and a few other broken bones, but Dollicia succumbed to her wounds at the scene of the accident. She was only 26 years old. The paramedics rushed her to a near by hospital in an effort to save her unborn child. It was discovered she had given birth to a second son,but unfortunately passed away shortly after. She was buried at Pinelawn Cemetery in Farmingdale on January 6, 1971. It was later revealed from a family source that during her relationship, Dollicia was physically abused by her husband, as well as her husband cashed out her life insurance policy and opened a business with the proceeds. Her parents had to take him to court for retribution of those funds, so she could be interred at the cemetery. She was planning to dissolved the relationship after the New Year. Dollicia F. Holloway was a victim of Domestic Violence,
before, during and after her death.
