Sister Patricia Holland poses at her house in Salt Lake Metropolis on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Sister Holland died Thursday on the age of 81. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information
After a faith-filled life outlined by dedication, service and testimony, Sister Patricia Terry Holland — the spouse of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — died Thursday, July 20, on the age of 81.
A former basic officer in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sister Holland — the mom of three, grandmother of 13 and great-grandmother of 5 — will likely be remembered for her fixed help of her husband and their efforts to share love and light-weight in nations the world over.
Born Feb. 16, 1942, in Enterprise, Utah, to Maeser W. and Marilla Terry, Sister Holland embodied the religion and legacy of her pioneer ancestors. That religion carried her from the remoted farming neighborhood of her youth to marriage and motherhood, basic Church management and the visibility of her husband’s callings and — in recent times — via sickness that illustrated her tenacity and character.
Raised in Enterprise, one in every of two daughters in a household that additionally included 5 sons, Sister Holland was a self-proclaimed “tomboy”; she liked horses and canine, milked cows and drove pickup vans, and labored with a capability that matched her brothers.
Most necessary, within the southern Utah neighborhood that included generations of pioneering Latter-day Saints — most of them aunts, uncles or cousins — Patricia was surrounded by prolonged household that descended from a protracted line of believers who had been steeped in a practice of religion.
“I couldn’t get away with something,” she stated in a 2018 Church Information interview.
Households lived on what they might increase within the “very rural neighborhood,” and “folks relied on what they might do with their arms,” she stated. Everybody anticipated issues to be arduous.
Due to that, religion was “within the blood, it was within the air, it was within the concrete, it was within the lumber,” stated Elder Holland.
Added Sister Holland: “You instructed faith-promoting tales and recalled ancestors who sacrificed.”
When she was 16 years previous, her dad and mom moved to St. George so their solely daughter would have somebody so far. She met Jeffrey Holland. “He was sensible. He was a beautiful pupil,” she stated. “He knew make associates. He had this simply great potential to make folks really feel good.”
After attending Dixie Faculty, supporting Elder Holland in his missionary service, and finding out piano and voice with a school member of Juilliard Faculty of Music in New York Metropolis, she married her highschool sweetheart on June 7, 1963, within the St. George Utah Temple.
Virtually six a long time later, whereas reflecting on the connection she shared with Elder Holland, Sister Holland would say, “I nonetheless proceed to study from my husband’s good thoughts.”