Vernon Lee Hollister

Vernon Lee Hollister died in Atlanta on August 27, 2026. He was 85. Born in Atlanta on September 18, 1940, into a Southern household that treated work as a language. He learned early that a day is something you finish, not something you wait for. He taught drills until habit replaced panic. A hard hat stickered with training dates was biography written in vinyl. Colleagues still mention a hard hat stickered with training dates. He married Pearl in 1967. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised three children through public schools and ordinary weather. After Pearl died in 2019, he kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember someone who knew every child's name on the block. He liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. He died in Atlanta, among streets he never needed to explain. The recipe card is still stained in the useful places.