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told to me. (Author unknown)
Genealogy--Begins as an interest, Becomes a hobby, Continues as an
avocation, Turns into an obsession, and ends as an incurable disease.
(Author Unknown)
From--"History of Madison County Ohio" W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 Chicago
The people of to-day hardly realize or appreciate what they owe to the
large-hearted pioneer fathers and mothers, who, with their children, braved
the perils of the wilderness; who reared their families in the fear of God,
and implanted within them all the virtures necessary to the welfare of
humanity, and passed away, leaving to them an inheritance that is invaluaable
and that should ever be cherished and kept in a sacred remembrance.
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Stephen H. Holt, born 7 April 1919, he was the fourth child of Addison Clark
Holt and Jean Elena Kemp Holt. He was born near Graham, in Nodaway County
Missouri. Until the age of ten years he lived in Nodaway County, principally in
the town of Maryville. His early schooling was in Maryville. At
approximately ten years of age, his parents moved to Springfield, Missouri. He
was educated in the public school system of Springfield, graduating from
Central High School in 1938
During his high school years he worked in a small drive-in restaurant
serving customers and preparing simple dishes such as sandwiches, etc. He did
not like this kind of work and was always looking for ways and means of
obtaining more education, so as to be able to engage in a more interesting and
stimulating career. During his high school employment a customer, a
physician, offered him a job in his office doing laboratory analysis of
patients specimens. Stephen had neither knowledge of nor experience in the
field. He was promised to be trained by the physician himself. A very
fortunate coincidence occurred. On the same floor of the office building
housing the physicians office was a commercial medical laboratory. The
operator of this laboratory, in exchange for telephone answering services,
offered to teach Stephen laboratory technology. This association continued
for a period of some two years.
By this time Stephen had completed high school and was attending college.
The physician for whom he worked, Walter H. Burke MD, had so influenced
Stephen that he wanted to study medicine. The association with the medical
laboratory had also contributed to this desire. Stephen often stated that
these two persons, Dr. Burke and Mr. Harold Donaldson were responsible for his
burning desire to study medicine.
It was now in the early 1940's. and the nation was engaged in World War
II. A military hospital, scheduled to be 500 beds, but eventually was 5000
beds, was built in Springfield. Answering an advertisement for laboratory
personnel, Stephen was hired as the chief technologist. He remained in this
capacity until he entered the U. S. Navy in February of 1943. Finishing boot
training at Farragut, Idaho, he was assigned to the hospital corps. He could
not get assignment to a laboratory as per his request so he applied for
training as a laboratory technician. He was assigned to The National Naval
Medical Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland for this training. At the completion
of the course of training, he was number one in his class. As a result of
this standing and in keeping with a policy of the navy, he was offered his
choice of duty in any part of the world where there was an opening. Of the
choices offered, the most appealing to Stephen was the opportunity to join a
medical research unit which was attached to The Rockefeller Institute of
Medical Research in New York City. It was being formed to go to the south
Pacific to do research on tropical diseases. Stephen elected to become a part
of this unit. As a result he spent almost two years working with some of the
greatest medical minds of the times.
When Stephen applied for entrance to medical school, the association with
these physicians and their letters of recommendations were of tremendous
importance. Because of no financial assistance being available, Stephen had
to work to support his wife and two children. In his sophomore, junior and
senior years in school he held three teaching jobs simultaneously. Through
the summer vacation period between his sophomore and junior years he was
engaged in a research project studying the effect of antibiotics on Typhus
fever. This was done at the medical school with one of his professors, Dr.
Emil Kotcher. In the summer between his junior and senior years he worked as
supervisor of the bacteriology laboratory at the university hospital.
After graduation from medical school, he interned and began a residency
in pathology at The Edward W. Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. He
interrupted his residency training for two years while working for the
Michigan State Department of Health Laboratories as a clinical pathologist.
He finished the last years of residency in pathology at The Henry Ford
Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Upon completion of his residency in pathology,
he went to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he was chief pathologist and director of
laboratories at Kenosha Memorial Hospital and Medical Center for the next 32
years. He retired from medical practice in 1989 and moved to Sarasota,
Florida.
Sarasota Harold, Fri. 28 April 2000
STEPHEN H. HOLT, M.D., age 81 of Sarasota died April 27, 2000. Dr. Holt was born April 7, 1919 in Maryville, Missouri and was 'the son of the late Addison Clark Holt and Jean Kemp Holt. He moved to Sarasota ten years ago from Winthrop Harbor, Illinois. A Pathologist with Kenosha Memorial Hospital in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he retired in 1989. He was a graduate of North West Missouri state in Springfield, Missouri and also a graduate of Louisville SchooI of Medicine. Dr. Holt was a veteran of the U.S. Navy in Guam during World War II, serving with the Naval Medical Research Unit and was of the Protestant faith. He was a member of the American Society of Pathologists and The Genealogical Society of Sarasota. He was predeceased in death by his son Stephen B. Holt. Survivors include his wife, Sue Quayle Holt of Sarasota; one daughter, Barbara Woolston, of Glendale, Arizona; two sons, Mark of Collierville, Tennessee, David of Glendale, Arizona; four step-daughters, Jeanne Vedder, M.D. and Kathryn Vedder both of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kris Ziesemer of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin; Sumaiyah Vedder of San Diego, California; two brothers, Ray of Maspeth, New York and Bob of Orlando, Florida; six grandchildren, one great .grandchild and eight step grandchildren. Visitation will be Saturday, April 29th, Noon to 1:00p.m. with the Funeral at 1:00 p.m. at Toale Brothers Colonial chapel. Burial will be at Greenridge Cemetery in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Donations may be made to: Genealogical Society of Sarasota, P.O. Box. 1917, Sarasota, Florida 34230. Toale Brothers Colonial Chapel in charge of arrangements.
Sue's address's at Steve's death:
1901 Fourth Street, Winthrop, IL 60096
716 Forestview Drive, Sarasota, FL 34232
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