Melvin Willars Holm

Male 1920 - 2005  (84 years)


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  • Name Melvin Willars Holm 
    Born 2 Nov 1920  Lu Verne, Kossuth County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 22 Apr 2005  Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Oakwood Memorial Park, Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4370  Rossen Genealogy
    Last Modified 26 May 2018 

    Father Willars Holm,   b. 24 Oct 1893, Harlan, Shelby County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1974  (Age 81 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Sarah Cooper Quinn 
    Relationship Birth 
    Family ID F1517  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Kathleen Alicia Fosse,   b. 23 May 1919, Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Oct 2011, Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years) 
    Married 3 May 1946  Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Peter Holm,   b. 13 Nov 1948, Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     2. Alan Keith Holm  [Birth]
     3. Susan Holm  [Birth]
     4. Martha Holm  [Birth]
     5. Mary Holm  [Birth]
    Last Modified 6 Oct 2017 
    Family ID F1518  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Melvin W. Holm, 84, of Ottawa died on Friday, April 22, 2005, at his home.

      Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Ottawa with the Rev. David Raben, Pastor, officiating. Burial will be at Oakwood Memorial Park in Ottawa where full military rites will be conducted. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Mueller Funeral Home and Monday at the church one hour prior to the funeral.

      Mr. Holm was born Nov. 2, 1920, in Lu Verne, Iowa, to Willars and Sarah (Quinn) Holm. He married Kathleen Fosse on May 3, 1946, in Sycamore. He was a veteran of the Navy, serving in World War II in the Mediterranean on an LST and in the Normandy invasion at Omaha Beach. He was employed as a millwright at Libbey-Owens-Ford in Naplate until his retirement.

      He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, American Legion Post 33, Ottawa Bowlers Hall of Fame and the National Bowlers Hall of Fame.

      He is survived by his wife Kathleen; three daughters, Susan (Emmett) Bowles of Louisville, Ky., Mary (Sam) Kennedy-Thompson of Ottawa and Martha (Charles) Black of Seneca; two sons, Alan (Shirley) Holm of Lancaster, Pa. and Peter L. (Helen) Holm of Springfield; nine grandchildren, Anita Holm, Nathan Holm, Ben Holm, Matthew Holm, Joshua Holm, Beau Beguin, Sara Beguin, Connor Kennedy and Katie Kennedy; one great-grandson, George Alerton Holm; and one sister, Anna Marie (Kenneth) Mann of Streator.

      He was preceded in death by two brothers, Donald W. Holm and Harold "Butch" Holm.

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