Daniel Lee Holker (2015)

HOLKER, ANTISDEL, JACKSON, STEELE, GODDARD, KEESLER, MCINTOSH, CONARD

Posted By: Shirley Keating (email)
Date: 6/30/2015 at 22:18:16

Powers Funeral Home
Creston, Iowa

Dan Holker

Dan Holker, 57, of Winterset, formerly of Creston, died Monday, June 29, 2015 in Madison County as the result of a vehicle accident.

Celebration of Life Memorial Services will be 1:00 p.m. Monday, July 6, 2015 at Powers Funeral Home junction of highway 34 and 25 in Creston. Mary O'Riley will officiate.

Burial will be at Carl Cemetery, northwest of Prescott.

Open visitation will be 2-7:00 p.m. Sunday, July 5, 2015, with family receiving friends from 5-7:00 p.m. Sunday, at Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Memorials may be directed to the family.

Online condolences can be given at www.powersfh.com .

Daniel Lee Holker, son of Cathryn (Antisdel) Holker and Doyle Holker, was born May 2, 1958 in Atlantic, Iowa.

He lived in Lewis, Iowa during his childhood years, then the family moved to the Cromwell and Creston area. Dan graduated from Creston High School, where he was actively involved in football, basketball, baseball and track. He went on to play slow & fast pitch softball for many years.

On August 9, 1980, Dan married his high school sweetheart Shirley Jackson in Cromwell. They raised two wonderful children, Joshua and Jacqueline. They moved to Earlham, then Winterset, where they live today. Dan loved being around his family and friends and lived life to the fullest. He loved the outdoors, -hunting, fishing and camping and all of his pets. Dan especially loved going to the lake lot that they named SHDAN Acres.

Survivors include his wife of 34 years Shirley Holker of Winterset; son, Josh Holker of Winterset; daughter, Jackie (husband Mike) Steele of Adel; his mother, Cathryn Holker of Creston; three sisters, Christy (husband Ralph) Goddard of Creston, Roxanne (husband Bill) Keesler of Des Moines and Angie (husband Dan) McIntosh of Creston; one brother, Jim (wife Deb) Holker of Creston; four grandchildren, Josie, Jorja, Jilly and Brock, and many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.

Dan was preceded in death by his father, Doyle, grandparents, Opal and Lawrence Antisdel, and a niece and nephew, Pearl and Bert Conard.