Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Dr. Gilmer G. Sr., 1953 

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GILMER GUSTAVE HOLLAND, SR., M.D. 

Dr. G. G. Holland Of Holland Dies 

  Holland, Feb. 13 - Dr. Gilmer Gustave Holland, Sr., 59, died today at 4:10 
p.m. at Louise Obici Memorial Hospital following a heart attack suffered at 
his office earlier in the day. 

  Husband of Mrs. Grace Bailey Holland, of Holland, [he] was the son of Mrs. 
Nannie Jones Holland and the late Dr. Job G. Holland, of Holland.  In addition 
to his wife and mother, he is survived by one daughter, Miss Jane Holland, of 
Emporia; one son, Gilmer G. Holland, Jr., a student at VPI; one brother, Ayler 
Holland, of Holland. 

  A lifelong resident of Holland, Dr. Holland began practice with his father 
here upon his graduation from the University of Richmond. 

  He was a member of the Tri-County Medical Association, the Holland Christian 
Church, the Holland Ruritan Club, and a Shriner of the Khedive Temple, of 
Norfolk. 

  Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Holland 
Congregational Christian Church, conducted by the Rev. J.H. Lightbourne, Jr., 
pastor.  Burial will be in Holland Cemetery. 

  The body will remain at the I.O. Hill Funeral Home until Sunday at 1:30 
p.m., at which time it will be taken to the Holland Christian Church, where it 
will lie state until the funeral. 

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[photo, headed:] 
  Funeral Rites Today 
[captioned:] 
  Dr. Gilmer Gustave Holland, Sr., of Holland, who died Friday.  Funeral 
services will be conducted today at 3:30 p.m. at the Holland Christian Church 
by the Rev. James H. Lightbourne, Jr., pastor.  Burial will be in the Holland 
Cemetery with Masonic rites. 

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Rites Today For Dr. Gilmer Holland 

  Funeral services for Dr. Gilmer Gustave Holland, Sr., 50, a prominent doctor 
of Holland, who died Friday afternoon at 4:10 p.m. at the Louise Obici 
Memorial Hospital following a heart attack suffered at his office earlier in 
the day, will be held this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Holland 
Congregational Christian Church. 

  The body will remain at the I.O. Hill Funeral Home until this afternoon at 
1:30 p.m., at which time it will be taken to the church to lie in state.  The 
Rev. J.H. Lightbourne, Jr., pastor, will conduct the services.  Burial will 
follow in the Holland Cemetery with Masonic rites at the graveside. 

  He was the son of Mrs. Nannie Jones Holland, of Holland, and the late Dr. 
Job G. Holland. 

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grace Bailey Holland, of Holland; a daughter, 
Miss Jane Holland, of Emporia; one son, Gilmer G. Holland, a student at 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg; a brother, Ayler Holland, of 
Holland. 

  He was a life-long resident of Holland and began his practice of medicine 
in Holland with his father when he graduated from the Medical College of 
Virginia. 

  He was a member of the Tri-County Medical Association, the Holland Christian 
Church, the Holland Ruritan Club, a Shriner of the Khedive Temple of Norfolk 
and of the Blue Lodge, No. 30. 

[photo, captioned:] 
        Dr. Gilmer G. Holland . . . succumbs at 59 

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DR. GILMER HOLLAND 

  Funeral services for Dr. Gilmer Gustave Holland, Sr., of Holland, who died 
Friday at the Louise Obici Memorial Hospital, were held yesterday afternoon 
at 3:30 o'clock at the Holland Congregational Christian Church. 

  The pastor, the Rev. J.H. Lightbourne, Jr., conducted the services.  Burial 
took place at the Holland Cemetery with Masonic rites at the graveside. 

  The pall was of red roses, white carnations and freesia.  Active pallbearers 
were Dr. Holmes Chapman, Dr. Ivan Steele, Dr. Beamon Story, Dr. John Graziani, 
Dr. Joe Waff, Sumner Rawles, L.P. Waldo, H.V. White and Tall Jones.  Doctors 
of the Tri-County Medical Association, deacons of the church and friends of 
the family, served as honorary pallbearers. 


Gilmer Gustave HOLLAND, Sr., M.D., 
b. 26 Sep 1893, Holland, d. 13 Feb 1953, Suffolk, 
interred in Holland Municipal Cemetery*, 15 Feb 1953, 
"Norfolk Virginian-Pilot," Vol. 206, No. 45, Sat., Feb. 14, 1953, p. 16 
   {image 22}; 
"Norfolk Virginian-Pilot," Vol. 206, No. 46, Sun., Feb. 15, 1953, 
   pt. 4, p. 10 {image 64}; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 31, No. 38, Sun., Feb. 15, 1953, p. 9; 
"Norfolk Virginian-Pilot," Vol. 206, No. 47, Mon., Feb. 16, 1953, p. 20 
   {image 22}; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 31, No. 39, Mon., Feb. 16, 1953, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

His parents are also buried there.  Holland list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holland.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Budjr - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #91900786. 

D.Cert. 5111 (Chuckatuck #56) 


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