Esther Pauline Holt

© Enid News and Eagle

10-27-2005

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

The funeral for Esther Pauline Holt, 89, of Alva will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Wharton Funeral Chapel. Landis Trekell will officiate. Burial will be in Alva Municipal Cemetery. Arrange-ments are by Wharton Funeral Chapel.

She was born March 3, 1916, near Whitehorse to Blanche Crabb and Floyd Elmer "Short' Witchey and died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005, at Pratt Regional Living Center.

She attended Pleasant Ridge rural grade school, Farry High School and graduated from Alva High School in 1935. She played basketball with both high schools.

She married Clifford Jasper Holt July 24, 1937, in Cherokee. They made their home in Alva. He died July 21, 1976.

She was a member of Alva Friends Church, working with the Missionary group, Chrysanthemum unit of Alva Garden Club and Busy Circle Quilting Club. She also served on the election board and with genealogy group in writing "Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County."

Surviving are two daughters, Madeline Cline of Pratt, Kan., and Ramona Shelite of El Reno; two sons, Stanley of Kiowa, Kan., and Allen of Rosenburg, Texas; two stepsons, Elvin of Alva, and Robert of Goddard, Kan.; two sisters Mary Lou Witchey and Gail Wilks, both of Alva; five brothers, Bill, Dean, Dale and Robert, all of Alva, and Earl of Warner, S.D.; 18 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband Clifford, she was preceded in death by one son, one sister, three brothers and one grandson.

Memorials may be made to Pratt Regional Living Center, Pratt, Kan.

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