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Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home obituary
519 Evans Street
Spearman, TX 79081
(806) 659-3802

Nolan C. Holt
December 18, 1921 - September 28, 2017

Nolan C. Holt, Spearman, Texas passed away September 28, 2017. Services will be on Saturday, September 30, 2017, 2:00P.M. at the First United Methodist Church in Spearman with Rev. Toni Bailey and John Scott officiating. Burial will follow at Holt Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Spearman.
Written by Nolan C. Holt in his own hand. Only small spelling corrections and punctuation were added for ease of reading.
“I was born December 18, 1921 ¾ mile west of Holt School. I attended Holt School through 4th grade. Then I went to Spearman through high school. I went to Texas A&M where I was a Cadet 1st Sargent. I served in World War 2 in Pacific Theater.
Georgia Thompson and I married September 23, 1942. We had two children Linda & Larry. They are engaged in farming; so are their children. Georgia died of ovarian cancer in 1983.
I married Helen Richardson Etter in 2000 and we are enjoying growing old together.
All this time I have been in agriculture. When I was very young, I walked behind a harrow pulled by a team of horses. It was necessary to harrow the field several times to control the weeds in the growing of feed for the livestock. When I got a little older, I rode a saddle horse behind the harrow. That was real progress. When I was about ten years old, I was promoted to a tractor. They made a back for the seat out of a thirty gallon barrel and riveted it to the tractor seat. I would climb up on the tractor fender and step down in the seat. That way I could not fall off. Machinery has changed through the years from horses to tractors that pulled a fourteen foot one way, to a tractor that pulls a 63 foot sweep and a combine that cuts a 35 foot swath. Now we have GPS that guides the tractor except for turning. I could not have continued to farm if I did not have Daniel Enriquez and Zach Chavez. They have been loyal employees for the last 30 years.
I am proud to be a part of the Holt Community, and the preservation of the School & Cemetery. I have had a full and wonderful life.” Nolan was baptized at the Kirk Lake during a local revival. He was a lifelong member of God’s family. He was currently attending United Methodist Church of Spearman.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Georgia Marie Thompson Holt; parents, Benjamin Calvin and Birda May Kirk Holt; brothers, O.C. Holt, Joseph Newton Holt, Benjamin Fredrick Holt, and sisters, Maudie Marie Holt Marshall, and Myrle May Holt; and great granddaughter, Georgia Grace Pearson.
He is survived by wife, Helen Richardson Etter Holt; children, Linda Jean Holt Jarvis and husband, Billy Britt Jarvis, and Larry Nolan Holt and wife, Jan Trindle Holt; grandchildren, William Britt Jarvis and wife, Kristi Simpson Jarvis, Anne Marie Jarvis Pearson and husband, Roger Mark Pearson, Bonnie Lea Jarvis Woolam, and husband, Kyle Thomas Woolam, Josie Mae Holt Hudson and husband, Logan Hudson, John Benjamin Holt and wife, Elissa Holt, Betsy Jane Holt Kalisiak, and husband Shad Kalisiak, and David Nolan Holt.
Also, he was proud of all of his twenty great- grandchildren: Jessica Jarvis Livingston and husband, Ryan, Matthew Jarvis and wife, Audrey, Richard Jarvis, Daniel Jarvis, Charles Pearson, Mary Ellen Pearson, Luke Woolam, Drew Woolam, Samantha Woolam, Samuel Hudson, Daniel Hudson, Anna Hudson, Genevieve Holt, Liliana Holt, Rosemary Holt, Cecilia Holt, Constance Holt, Henry Holt, Elizabeth Holt, and Judah Kalisiak. He also blessed by his long time employees and dear friends, Daniel Enriquez and Zach Chavez.