Dr. Naomi Ruth Brumley Holman

Memorial services for Dr. Naomi Ruth Brumley Holman will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 20 at the Chapel in the Hills 1406 Ranch Road 12 Wimberley, Tx. The Rev. Jim Denham, pastor of Chapel of the Hills, will officiate. Holman was born on September 9, 1927. She died on Thursday, August 23, 2018.

Dr. Holman was an editor, an educator, school counselor and later college professor until her retirement. She graduated from Hereford High School, earned a bachelor’s and Master’s degree from West Texas A&M University, attended Texas Women’s University in Denton in 1945 and then finished her degree at West Texas State University with a bachelor of science in elementary education and a minor in history in 1962. She earned a Master’s degree in Education with a minor in Psychology from West Texas State in 1969. She earned and completed her doctorate from Western Colorado University in 1973.

Holman often called herself a teller. As an educator and as a journalist, she saw it as her job to “tell” others information. Even into her 80’s, Holman helped to serve others in developing and founding My New Best Friends Respite Care In Wimberley, TX and volunteered for Darden Hill School for Boys In Driftwood, TX. Holman was an active member of Wimberley Chapel in the Hills for over 40 years.

She began her career as a freelance writer in 1949 to 1962 for various magazines and also wrote for the United Press and Associated Press. She worked as a classroom teacher in Hereford ISD from 1962-1966, as editor in chief of the Hereford Brand Newspaper in 1966-67. She worked as the Director of Federal programs in Hereford in 1969-71. She also wrote and produced curriculum for publications throughout her life.

Holman also was employed by Temple and Georgetown Independent School Districts, Goose Creek Independent School District, and did contract work for other school districts with her husband Dr Robert Holman as Ozymandias Education Consultants, including Round Rock ISD, Del Rio and Copperas Cove ISDs among others throughout the Southwest. She also was employed by Texas State University, then Southwest Texas State as an education professor many years before her retirement.

She is preceded in death by Dr. Robert Holman, her husband, and her parents, Bonnie Edgar Brumley and Alma Florence Knox, and her brothers, Calvin Brumley and Jack Brumley.

Survivors include three daughters, Randy Hopson Loving, spouse Dr.Dan, daughter, Daun Hopson Masur, and daughter M’Lynn Hopson Stasney, spouse Ken and a son, Hayden Hopson Holman, spouse Jinky; eight grandchildren, Nicole Sanders Laura D’Lee Brown, spouse Scotty D’Lynn Trammell, spouse Mike LaRae Saucedo, spouse Matt

Bryce Bowerman, spouse Rachel Kyndra O’Neil, spouse Chris Nicholas Stasney and Liam Holman; and 11 great- grandchildren Lauren Sanders Jillian Sanders Madeline Sanders Hannah Brown Kendall Brown Mallory Trammel Lily Saucedo Alex Saucedo Cameron O’Neil Maya Bowerman and Miles Bowerman

In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to Wipe Every Tear, staff support, to bring hope and healing to the lives of women trafficked in the sex trade in the Philippines, care of Lauren Sanders 6604 W. Overland Drive, Boise Idaho 83709 https://www.wipeeverytear.org/