Source: Obituary from The Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper, Chicago, IL, USA
December 9, 1993
William M. Holland, Sales Executive
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: December 9, 1993
Section: NEWS
Edition: LATE SPORTS FINAL
Page: 73
Word Count: 290
William Monroe Holland, 86, a retired assistant sales manager for International Harvester, died Sunday at Old Orchard Manor nursing home, Skokie.
Before he retired in 1972, Mr. Holland spent more than four decades traveling through the Midwest, selling farm and construction equipment for International Harvester, now called Navistar. Born in Long Beach, Calif., he and his mother returned to her native Nebraska shortly after his father was murdered in Baja California while on a business trip.
After graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1931, Mr. Holland briefly attended law school, but quit to join Harvester's Nebraska sales office. Quickly establishing his sales prowess, Mr. Holland sold tractors to Nebraska farmers just hit by both a grasshopper plague and the Depression.
"When you can sell to farmers under those conditions, you have got to be good," said his wife, Nathalia. "He loved people and they loved him."
After transfers to Oklahoma City; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Holland moved to the company's Chicago headquarters in 1942. He had risen to assistant branch sales manager during the transfers, and became assistant sales manager of the construction division in Melrose Park in the early 1950s.
"He was what you would call a company man," his wife said. "He never missed a day of work in his life. Even his kids were born on weekends."
An Evanston resident, he belonged to the North Shore Senior Center in Winnetka and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Over the years, he served as deacon, elder and eventually a trustee in the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston.
Other survivors include a daughter, Marsha, and a son, William.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church of Evanston's Walker Chapel, 1427 Chicago Ave., Evanston. Burial will be private.
December 9, 1993
William M. Holland, Sales Executive
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: December 9, 1993
Section: NEWS
Edition: LATE SPORTS FINAL
Page: 73
Word Count: 290
William Monroe Holland, 86, a retired assistant sales manager for International Harvester, died Sunday at Old Orchard Manor nursing home, Skokie.
Before he retired in 1972, Mr. Holland spent more than four decades traveling through the Midwest, selling farm and construction equipment for International Harvester, now called Navistar. Born in Long Beach, Calif., he and his mother returned to her native Nebraska shortly after his father was murdered in Baja California while on a business trip.
After graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1931, Mr. Holland briefly attended law school, but quit to join Harvester's Nebraska sales office. Quickly establishing his sales prowess, Mr. Holland sold tractors to Nebraska farmers just hit by both a grasshopper plague and the Depression.
"When you can sell to farmers under those conditions, you have got to be good," said his wife, Nathalia. "He loved people and they loved him."
After transfers to Oklahoma City; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Holland moved to the company's Chicago headquarters in 1942. He had risen to assistant branch sales manager during the transfers, and became assistant sales manager of the construction division in Melrose Park in the early 1950s.
"He was what you would call a company man," his wife said. "He never missed a day of work in his life. Even his kids were born on weekends."
An Evanston resident, he belonged to the North Shore Senior Center in Winnetka and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Over the years, he served as deacon, elder and eventually a trustee in the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston.
Other survivors include a daughter, Marsha, and a son, William.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church of Evanston's Walker Chapel, 1427 Chicago Ave., Evanston. Burial will be private.
Source: Obituary from The Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper, Chicago, IL, USA
December 9, 1993
William M. Holland, Sales Executive
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: December 9, 1993
Section: NEWS
Edition: LATE SPORTS FINAL
Page: 73
Word Count: 290
William Monroe Holland, 86, a retired assistant sales manager for International Harvester, died Sunday at Old Orchard Manor nursing home, Skokie.
Before he retired in 1972, Mr. Holland spent more than four decades traveling through the Midwest, selling farm and construction equipment for International Harvester, now called Navistar. Born in Long Beach, Calif., he and his mother returned to her native Nebraska shortly after his father was murdered in Baja California while on a business trip.
After graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1931, Mr. Holland briefly attended law school, but quit to join Harvester's Nebraska sales office. Quickly establishing his sales prowess, Mr. Holland sold tractors to Nebraska farmers just hit by both a grasshopper plague and the Depression.
"When you can sell to farmers under those conditions, you have got to be good," said his wife, Nathalia. "He loved people and they loved him."
After transfers to Oklahoma City; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Holland moved to the company's Chicago headquarters in 1942. He had risen to assistant branch sales manager during the transfers, and became assistant sales manager of the construction division in Melrose Park in the early 1950s.
"He was what you would call a company man," his wife said. "He never missed a day of work in his life. Even his kids were born on weekends."
An Evanston resident, he belonged to the North Shore Senior Center in Winnetka and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Over the years, he served as deacon, elder and eventually a trustee in the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston.
Other survivors include a daughter, Marsha, and a son, William.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church of Evanston's Walker Chapel, 1427 Chicago Ave., Evanston. Burial will be private.
December 9, 1993
William M. Holland, Sales Executive
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: December 9, 1993
Section: NEWS
Edition: LATE SPORTS FINAL
Page: 73
Word Count: 290
William Monroe Holland, 86, a retired assistant sales manager for International Harvester, died Sunday at Old Orchard Manor nursing home, Skokie.
Before he retired in 1972, Mr. Holland spent more than four decades traveling through the Midwest, selling farm and construction equipment for International Harvester, now called Navistar. Born in Long Beach, Calif., he and his mother returned to her native Nebraska shortly after his father was murdered in Baja California while on a business trip.
After graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1931, Mr. Holland briefly attended law school, but quit to join Harvester's Nebraska sales office. Quickly establishing his sales prowess, Mr. Holland sold tractors to Nebraska farmers just hit by both a grasshopper plague and the Depression.
"When you can sell to farmers under those conditions, you have got to be good," said his wife, Nathalia. "He loved people and they loved him."
After transfers to Oklahoma City; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Holland moved to the company's Chicago headquarters in 1942. He had risen to assistant branch sales manager during the transfers, and became assistant sales manager of the construction division in Melrose Park in the early 1950s.
"He was what you would call a company man," his wife said. "He never missed a day of work in his life. Even his kids were born on weekends."
An Evanston resident, he belonged to the North Shore Senior Center in Winnetka and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Over the years, he served as deacon, elder and eventually a trustee in the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston.
Other survivors include a daughter, Marsha, and a son, William.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church of Evanston's Walker Chapel, 1427 Chicago Ave., Evanston. Burial will be private.
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