Wilson Holden Jr.

RICHARDSON — Services for Wilson B. "Jiggs" Holden Jr., 90, of Dallas will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sparkman Funeral Home in Richardson.

Private burial will be at Webb Chapel Cemetery in Farmers Branch under the direction of Sparkman Funeral Home of Richardson.

He died Wednesday, April 18, 2001.

He was born June 11, 1910, in Salem, W.Va., and moved to Lubbock in 1929. He graduated from Texas Technological College with a degree in horticulture and worked for the Texas Highway Department from 1934 to 1942.

During World War II, he worked for the U.S. government in Oklahoma and Texas building aircraft runways. In 1949, he and Max Dodson started the Holden-Dodson nursery. He retired in 1976, but continued to work part-time as a consultant until 1986. He moved to Dallas in 1999.

He was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church, Lions Club, Arboretum Board of Lubbock and Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He was a Texas Registered Landscape Architect and a consultant with SCORE.

Survivors include his wife, Martha; two sons, Pete of Richardson and Brown of Whitney; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

The family suggests memorials to Wilson and Ann Holden Scholarship Fund, Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 4123, Lubbock, TX 79409, or First United Methodist Church in Lubbock.
 

Lubbock Avalanche Journal - Friday, April 20, 2001
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

WILSON B. "JIGGS"
HOLDEN, JR.
JUNE 11, 1910 - APR. 18, 2011

Webb Chapel Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas