Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Holt, Edwin Burham 1947
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Independent Enterprise  3-20-1947
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, March 20, 1947
 
Well Known Fruitland Resident Died Friday In Ontario Hospital
 
Edwin Burham Holt died Friday afternoon at the Holy Rosary hospital in 
Ontario.  For the past four years he had been in poor health and three weeks 
ago he became seriously ill and all members of his family were notified.  All 
eight children came to be with him.  One son, Captain Wm. Holt of the USMC 
stationed in China flew 9000 miles to be with his father to the last.  Mrs. 
Emily Chandler and Donald Holt of Los Angeles stayed a week.  This was the 
first time in eight years the entire family had been together.
 
E. B. Holt was born May 16, 1864 at Hampton, Conn., where he received his 
education and grew to manhood.  Later he moved to Hastings, Nebr.  There in 
1905 he was married to Lillian Schellak.  In 1910 he with his family moved to 
Fruitland and purchased the ranch where he resided until the time of his 
death.  For years he was president of the Fruitland Fruit Association board of 
directors and was prominent in all civic affairs of the community.
 
Survivors include his wife, Lillian of Fruitland, four sons, Edwin of 
Fruitland, Donald of Also Angeles, Captain Wm. Holt of the USMC and James Holt 
of Fruitland; four daughters, Mrs. Josephine Osborne of Ontario, Mrs. Eva 
Strawn of Fruitland, Mrs. Gertrude Clark of Portland, Mrs. Emily Chandler of 
Los Angeles; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. 
Emily Congdon, of Hartford, Conn. and Mrs. James Stitt of Norfolk, Nebr.
 
Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock in the Church of the Brethren at 
Fruitland Monday with the Rev. Honeyford of the Baptist church of Ontario 
officiating.  Burial was at Riverside, Payette.

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