Newport News-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holt, Maria D. Reynolds, 1974 

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Mrs. Maria R. Holt 

  NEWPORT NEWS - Mrs. Maria Reynolds Holt, 93, widow of Saxon W. Holt, a 
Virginia state senator and lieutenant governor, died Friday in a nursing home. 

  A native of Norfolk, she was a resident of Newport News for 74 years.  She 
lived at 5712 Huntington Ave. 

  In 1904 she married Holt, who died in 1940.  Holt was a state senator for 36 
years and was elected lieutenant governor in 1938.  He died two years later 
while still in office.  He represented the cities of Newport News and Hampton, 
and Elizabeth City, York, and Warwick counties in the Senate. 

  She was a member of Newport News First Presbyterian Church, Women of the 
Church, and Hampton Roads Garden Club. 

  Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. James Sprigg of Smithfield, and two sons, 
Saxon W. Holt Jr. of Virginia Beach and M. Quincy Holt of Newport News. 

  A funeral service will be held today at 3 p.m. in Newport News First 
Presbyterian Church.  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery with Peninsula 
Funeral Home in charge. 


Maria Davis (REYNOLDS; Mrs. Saxon Winston) HOLT, of Newport News, 
b. 20 Oct 1880, Norfolk, d. 22 Feb 1974, Newport News, 
interred in Greenlawn Memorial Park*, Newport News, 24 Feb 1974, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 52, No. 47, Sun., Feb. 24, 1974, p. 8, 
   clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #86117052, by Norchid 

An obit also appeared in the "Daily Press," Feb. 23, 1974. 

*Additional information: 

Photos of her gravestones - added by Ron Stewart - are also posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #86117052. 

Her parents, Henry Singleton & Mary Carrington (WATKINS) REYNOLDS, are also 
   marked there, although her father (1835 - 1895) was buried in Cedar Grove 
   Cemetery, Norfolk. 

D.Cert. 74-003942 

Her father was a Confederate veteran, having served in Co. H, 6th VA Infantry. 
   He enlisted as a private and was promoted to 2nd lieutenant. 


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