Obit: John Burnham Holstead II, 1988, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 




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	The News-Star-World - Thursday, February 18, 1988
	JOHN BURNHAM HOLSTEAD II

RUSTON, LA. - John Burnham Holstead II of Ruston died Tuesday, February 16, 1988 
at Lincoln General Hospital. He was 74 years old and a native of Lincoln Parish.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, February 18, 1988 in Trinity 
United Methodist Church with Rev. Christ H. Andrews officiating. Services are 
under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home after 5 p.m. on Wednesday and 
after 10 a.m. on Thursday. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Ruston.

J. B. Holstead was the grandson of the late Judge John B. Holstead and the son of 
the late Clyde B. and Gertrude Randall Holstead of Ruston. He was married first to 
Maurice Cook Holstead who died in 1978.

He was a retired independent petroleum landman and was an employee of Sun Oil 
Company for many years. He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and 
the American Association of Petroleum Landmen.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Belle Taylor Kirkland Holstead; a son, John B. 
Holstead III of Houston, Texas; a daughter, Carol H. VanHook of Fort Worth, Texas; 
Mrs. Holstead's daughter, Mary Belle Tuten of Ruston; Mrs. Holstead's son Neil S. 
Kirkland of Ruston; and nine grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Rand Holstead, Scott Holstead, Will Holstead, John VanHook, 
and Robert Neil Kirkland, grandsons, and Harry Cook, Jr. John T. Richardson, Jr., 
and Charles L. Tannehill.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or the 
American Lung Association.