Jack Holt Obituary
Funeral services will be Friday, March 14, 2008, at 11 a.m., at Providence Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jim Smith and Rev. Huey Anderson officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow in Meadowlawn Cemetery with Providence Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m., Thursday, March 13, 2008, at the funeral home.
Mr. Holt was a veteran of the Vietnam war and retired from the U.S. Army in 1976. He then worked for DynCorp as an aircraft mechanic until retirement. He was preceded in death by a son, Kenneth Holt and his parents, John Murphy Holt and Annie Lillian King Holt and several brothers and sisters.
Survivors include his wife, Lula M. Holt, Daleville, Ala.; son, Col. Jeffrey Holt, Brandywine, Md., currently stationed in Iraq; daughter, Jacquelyn Dixon, Enterprise, Ala.; two step-daughters, Linda McDonald, Panama City Beach, Fla.; Helen Brigman, Daleville, Ala.; two step-sons, John Seals, Daleville, Ala.; Raymond Dickerson, St. Paul, Minn.; sisters, Marie Rutland, Lenox, Ga.; Carol Nalley, Columbus, Ga.; Ruth Kohlmeyer, Marietta, Ga.; brother, Virgil Holt, Dallas, Ga.; eleven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren.
William Searcy at Providence Funeral Home, 334-393-2273, is in charge of arrangements. Sign the guest book at www.eprisenow.com.
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CSM Steve & Sheila Flood
March 14, 2008
To the Holt Family,
We are deeply saddened to hear your loss. Please know that our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Leslie Lawson
March 14, 2008
Holt Family,
Our deepest sympathy and prayers are with you in this time and time to come. And we are glad that Col. Holt was able to make the trip home at this time.
Sincerely,
CPT T. Chris and Leslie Lawson
March 12, 2008
COL Holt and Peggy,
Please accept our deepest sympathies and know that our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
A memorial has been made in your father's name to the American Cancer Society.
God Bless,
The Families & Men of Team Grendel-URF 11601
LOUISE WETHERINGTON ROBERTS
March 12, 2008
DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO ALL THE FAMILY - I KNEW J.T. BACK IN THE FIFTIES WHEN ALL THE BOYS RODE THEIR MOTORCYCLES ON WEEKENDS AND HUNG OUT TOGETHER. I AM HIS FRIEND EMERSON WETHERINGTON'S SISTER LOUISE WETHERINGTON - VIRGIL KNEW ME TOO. NEVER KNEW WHERE EVERYBODY WENT.
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