Obituary of Eva Honolka Newman

Mrs. Eva Honolka Newman, age 83, passed away on September 13, 2020. The family will have a celebration of life for Mrs. Newman on Monday, October 12, 2020, with visitation at 10:30 A.M. and service at 11:00 A.M. at Frazer United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Followed by interment in the Westview Memorial Cemetery in Ozark, Alabama, Holman Funeral Home and Cremations of Ozark is entrusted with local arrangements. Eva was born May 14, 1937, in Trutnov, Czechoslovakia. The eldest daughter of the late John and Jarmila Honolka. For thirty-three years she was employed by the State of Alabama as a receptionist and tour guide at the state capitol and the First White House of the Confederacy. She always held in her heart her love for her homeland and for her adopted home country. Eva is now free to share how great this country is and the freedoms that it provided for her and her family. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Charles Newman and sons, Michael Frank Newman, Steven Allen Newman, John Zeke Walker and Sidney Honolka Walker. She is survived by her two children, son, Michael Newman (Susan); daughter, Julie Slaten (Gary). She leaves behind her sister, Pat Shaver and her brothers, John Honolka (Sandy), Don Honolka (Sharon) and Tom Honolka (Leslie). She also leaves behind five grandchildren, Melanie Newman, Kelly Slaten, Stephanie (Newman) Burris, Brian Slaten, Amy Slaten and one great granddaughter Selah Burris. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Eva’s memory to The American Stroke Association or The Tunnel to Towers Foundation.