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Mollie Minerva Pace Kolenovsky

21 Mar 1928 – 20 Feb 2020

Birth	21 Mar 1928
Death	20 Feb 2020
Cemetery	Grove Hill Memorial Park Dallas , Dallas County , Texas , USA
Added by	Patsy Conlon on 29 Oct 2020
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207448812

Bio

Mollie Minerva Kolenovsky of Irving, Texas March 21, 1928 - February 20, 2020 Mollie Minerva Kolenovsky, 91, a resident of Irving for seventy years, died Thursday, February 20, 2020 at a Dallas hospital. Born March 21, 1928 in Dallas, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin Pace and Annie Steward Pace. As a young woman, she packed parachutes for the Civil Air Patrol in 1943. She married Arnold Valentine Kolenovsky November 24, 1948 in Dallas. He died October 28, 2012. She was a retired bookkeeper and member of Oak View Baptist Church. She was known for doing unusual things in her later years. She had many tattoos; she was skydiving in her late 80's and loved to whistle. She was a former contestant in the Ms. Mature Irving Pageant. Number seven of ten children, her siblings were Wayne, Ben, Jim, Dorothy, Eula, Josephine, George, Charles, and Neal. Preceded in death by her parents, her husband and a daughter Judith Elaine, she is survived by daughters, Margaret Noll and husband Donald of Grant City, MO, Anna Hoppe and husband Larry of Honda, TX; sons, Michael Kolenovsky of Dallas, Gary Kolenovsky of Albany, MO, and Jim Kolenovsky and wife Alyce of New Mexico; brothers, George Pace and Charles Pace; several grandchildren; and several great grandchildren. The family will receive friends 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Monday, February 24, 2020 at Donnelly's Colonial Funeral Home, 606 West Airport Freeway in Irving. A graveside funeral will be held 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at Grove Hill Cemetery, 3920 Samuell Blvd. in Dallas, Texas 75228. Dr. Jim Gerlach of Oak View Baptist Church will officiate.

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Family

Parents

• Benjamin Franklin Pace 1889–1968 FaG
• Annie Steward Pace 1897–1983 FaG

Spouse

• Arnold Valentine Kolenovsky 1927–2012

Siblings

• Josephine Brunette Pace Holley 1916–2005 FaG
• 1LT James Earl Pace 1918–1953 FaG
• Eula Faye Pace Colley 1920–1992 FaG
• Dorothy Marie Pace Philley 1924–1997 FaG
• Benjamin Franklin Pace Jr 1926–2010 FaG
• Wayne Edward Pace 1935–1963 FaG
• John O'Neill Pace 1937–2016 FaG

Children

• Judith Elaine Kolenovsky 1954–1954

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