Hollie Gene Suggs

Hollie Gene Suggs, 89, of Thorntown, IN passed away Tuesday, October 20, 2025 at his residence.  The Macon County, TN native was a 1956 graduate of Arsenal Tech. High School, former employee of City of Beech Grove Sanitation Department in Indiana from 1970 to 1973, a retired painter at Ohio Steel in Columbus, OH.  After retirement, he held a position at the Columbus Fair Auto Auction, loved making quilts, painting, drawing, watching sci-fi, WWE and cheering for the Ohio State Buckeyes and attended New Beginnings Church.  He was a son of the late Herman P. Suggs and Norma J. Dyer Suggs and husband of the late Velma Alice Kuhn Suggs.

Survivors include 1 son: Mike Suggs, Indianapolis, IN;

3 daughters: Glenda M. Suggs, Los Angeles, CA; Sarah Blake (William), Arlington, WA; Lisa Sims, Indianapolis, IN;

1 sister: Kathleen "Susie" Lafferty (Glenn), Thorntown, IN;

2 grandchildren: William Blake and Sophia Blake;

His special fur friend: Lady;

Funeral service will be 2:00 P.M. Friday at Myers & Hunt Mortuary, 116 West Plum Street, Thorntown, IN.  Visitation will be 12:Noon until service time.  Graveside service will be 2:00 P.M. Monday, October 27, 2025 at Haysville Cemetery and Goad Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.  Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to the Humane Society for Boone County, P.O. Box 708, Lebanon, IN 46052 or https://hsforbc.org.

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