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Submitted: 11/17/20 • Approved: 11/18/20 • Last Updated: 11/21/20 • R367056-G0-S3
(O.C.)
August 29, 1906-April 9, 2001
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
SPEARMAN - Ora Calvin Holt, 94, died Monday, April 9, 2001, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Holt Schoolhouse. Burial will be in Holt Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors of Spearman.
Mr. Holt, son of Birda May and Benjamin Calvin Holt, was born Aug. 29, 1906 in the Holt community, Hutchinson County. O.C. attended Panhandle A&M College at Goodwell, Okla., West Texas State Teachers College and the University of Texas. Mr. Holt was with the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service in its beginning during the Dust Bowl, at Dalhart and later at Hereford, Spearman and Stinnett.
He was a farmer and rancher. He was a member of the Federal Land Bank Association. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a Shriner.
Mr. Holt was preceded in death by his wife, Louise Rorex Holt, in 1990; by a sister, Maudie Marie Holt Marshall; and by a brother, Benjamin Fredrick Holt.
Survivors include his wife, Helen Blanton Oakes Holt; a daughter, Anita Louise Holt Eisenhauer and husband, Gene, of Corpus Christi; a sister, Myrle Holt of Spearman; two brothers, Dr. Joseph Newton Holt of Fort Worth and Nolan Holt of Spearman; two grandsons, William Edmond Eisenhauer and wife, Karen, of Yakima, Wash., and George Edward Eisenhauer of Victoria; a great-grandson, David Edmond Eisenhauer; and a great-granddaughter, Rachel Elizabeth Eisenhauer.
Amarillo Daily News, April 10, 2001
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