Holzman, Gordon 1929-2002

HOLZMAN, KEMP, VASKE

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/15/2017 at 11:33:14

ALTON, Iowa -- Gordon Holzman, 72, of Alton died Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at his residence.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alton, with Monsignor Nicholas J. Ruba and the Rev. James Tigges officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Friday, with a parish rosary at 3 p.m., a vigil prayer service at 7:30 p.m. and a Knights of Columbus rosary at 8 p.m., all at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Fisch Funeral Home in Remsen, Iowa.

Mr. Holzman was born Dec. 19, 1929, in rural Le Mars, Iowa, the son of Frank and Josephine (Kemp) Holzman. He was raised in the rural Le Mars area and graduated from St. Joseph's Catholic School in Le Mars, in 1947. He then was a farm laborer in the Le Mars area.

On Feb. 14, 1950, he married Marian Vaske at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Remsen. They farmed near Le Mars until 1961, when they moved to a farm near Alton. He retired and they moved into Alton in the spring of 1992. He worked for the ASCS office in Orange City, Iowa, for many years.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and the church choir. He was commissioned as a Eucharistic minister on March 15, 1970. He also was a member of Knights of Columbus. He was very active in the church and also the community. Gordon was a cancer survivor for 22 years.

Survivors include his wife, Marian of Alton; three sons and their wives, Gary and Eileen of Remsen, David and Irene of Pensacola, Fla., and Kevin and Mary of Alton; four daughters and their husbands, Deb and Paul Dunn of Lawton, Iowa, Jane and Dave List of Granville, Iowa, Beth and Mike Larson and Anita and Bob Finger, all of Omaha; 25 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; four brothers, Clayton and his wife, Lois, of Le Mars, Roger of Houston, Texas, Marv and his wife, Sharri, of Riverside, Calif., and Leon and his wife, Nancy, of Le Mars; four sisters, Joanne and her husband, Leonard Anthony of Le Mars, Elaine and her husband, Bill Pew of San Marcos, Calif., Edna Holzman and her friend, Dick Granham, of Omaha, and Betty and her husband, Roger Curry, of Saratoga, Calif.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, James; a brother, Stanley; and a sister and her husband, Marian and Irvin Gotto.

Pallbearers will be Nick and Pat Dunn, Mark Holzman, Brian, Eric, Jason, Jeremy and Michael List.

Sioux City Journal
Thursday, June 20, 2002
Sioux City, IA