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Patricia Holland’s funeral set for Friday in Salt Lake City

By Genelle Pugmire - | Jul 27, 2023

Courtesy Intellectual Properties

Elder Jeffery R. Holland, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his wife, Patricia Holland.

Funeral services for Sister Patricia Holland, the wife of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be held Friday at 11 a.m.

Sister Holland, 81, a former counselor in the Young Women General Presidency of the church, died July 20 after a brief illness.

Services will be held in the Conference Center Theater in Salt Lake City. The public is invited to attend or live stream the services at https://churchofjesuschrist.org/media/broadcasts/funeral-service-for-sister-patricia-t-holland?lang=eng.

There will be no public viewing at the Conference Center. Following the Salt Lake services, a private graveside service for family will be held in St. George.

Patricia Terry was born Feb. 16, 1942, and grew up on a farm in Enterprise, a small pioneer-founded community in southern Utah. “I came from a community of faith where the entire community believed and taught it. I couldn’t get away with anything,” she said, according to a church news release.

She also grew up hearing of the strong convictions and faith of her pioneer ancestors, which influenced her throughout her life.

“I learned everything that I have with the gospel from my mother at my mother’s knee,” she previously said. “She loved to study, and she loved to read, and she studied gospel things, and she would impart that to her children and to me particularly. I was the only girl with five boys for a good part of my life. I had a little sister born when I was 16.”

Her family moved to St. George as she was beginning her high school years. She met her eventual husband, Jeffrey Holland, while attending Dixie High. They became close friends and dated until he left for his LDS mission. They married on June 7, 1963 in the St. George Temple.

The Hollands have three children, Matthew, Mary Alice and David, 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Her son Matt, former president of Utah Valley University and now a General Authority Seventy, said the family dinner table conversations are among his fondest childhood memories.

“Every night was a kind of family home evening filled with laughter, compliments, encouragement, interesting conversation, testimony and expressions of love,” Matt Holland said in a family statement.

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