Melvin Willars Holm

1920 - 2005  (84 years)

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

  
  

  Father	Willars Holm,   b. 24 Oct 1893, Harlan, Shelby County, Iowa, USA ,   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 ,   d. 5 Oct 2011, Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA  (Age 92 years)
  Married	3 May 1946	Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois, USA
  Children	1. Peter Holm,   b. 13 Nov 1948, Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA  [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. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/111215649/person/270086604281/facts