THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, September 15, 1955

 

Jack Holt, former bandmaster of Bunnell High School, was killed instantly early Saturday morning in an automobile accident near the DeLand airport on U. S. highway 92. He had filled an engagement as, pianist with an orchestra in DeLand and was returning to his home in Ormond when the two-car head-on crash occurred.

Mr. Holt graduated from Stetson University in 1952 with a major in music education and taught here two years. He was an instructor at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, last year while getting his Masters Degree in Music. He was beginning his first year as bandmaster at Seabreeze High School in Daytona Beach. He was 27 years old and a native of Ludington, Mich.

Funeral services were held at the Allen-Summerall Funeral Home in DeLand Tuesday afternoon at 2:30, and the body was sent to Flint, Mich. for burial.

He is survived by his wife, Coyla; a daughter, Gail, and a son, Kim; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Holt of Chicago, and one sister of Michigan.