Obit: Holum, P.T. ‘Ford’ (? - 1976)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Holum

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 1/15/1976

Holum, P.T. ‘Ford’ (? -1976)

Funeral services were to be held in Twin Valley, Mn., Wednesday for P.T. (Ford) Holum, retired Neillsville grocer who died Sunday morning in Venice, Fl., of cancer.

Mr. and Mrs. Holum had been in Florida for about two weeks when he succumbed after spending but a few days in the Venice hospital.

In a telephone call to local friends the day before, Mrs. Holum said that doctors there had been unable to stabilize the cancer which was necessary before chemotherapy could be started. Mr. Holum had undergone x-ray treatment at Marshfield before leaving for Florida just before Christmas and was to start the chemical treatment there.

Mr. Holum had been an owner of the Red Owl grocery in Neillsville before selling the business. He later became one of the first meat inspectors for the state when the state meat inspection program was expanded. He retired from that position about three years ago.

Mrs. Holum served for many years as medical records technician at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville, and in the last couple of years had been a consultant in that field for the Neillsville and Black River Falls hospitals.

Mr. Holum was a native of Twin Valley, Mn., but came to Neillsville from Racine, where he was in the grocery business. In his younger days he played drums in orchestras in the Fergus Falls, Mn., area.

Surviving besides Mrs. Holum is a son, Bruce, who lives in the east.

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Obit: Holum, P.T. ‘Ford’ #2 (1906 - 1976)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Holum

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 1/22/1976

Holum, Peter, Tilford ‘Ford’ (30 May 1906 – 11 January 1976)

Interment was Thursday, January 15, in Twin Valley, Mn., Lutheran Cemetery for Peter Tilford (Ford) Holum, 69, who died January 11 in Venice, Fl.

Mr. Holum operated a meat and grocery store in Neillsville for many years. After selling the store, he became a meat inspector for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture. He retired four years ago and spent part of the year in Venice, Fl.

Mr. Holum was born May 30, 1906, at Flom, Mn., and moved from there to Twin Valley, Mn., where he received his education. He was married February 22, 1931, in Minneapolis. His wife, Constance, survives him, together with one son, Bruce, and two granddaughters, Anne and Linda Holum, Phoenix, Az.

He was a member of the Sons of Norway Lodge, Rotary International and the Masonic Lodge, F&AM.