Funeral services have been set for Patricia Terry Holland, the Latter-day Saint author and leader who died this week at age 81.
The service for the wife of Latter-day Saint apostle Jeffrey R. Holland will take place Friday at 11 a.m. in the Conference Center Theater in downtown Salt Lake City, according to Doug Andersen, spokesperson for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Patricia T. Holland and her husband, apostle Jeffrey R. Holland, share their experience visiting with refugees in Hannover, Germany, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. Pat Holland died Thursday, July 20, 2023.
The public is invited. The Utah-based faith also will broadcast the service and provide a livestreaming link when it becomes available.
No public viewing is planned.
Pat Holland, who grew up in southern Utah, will be buried in St. George, where she graduated from high school and college. She also married Jeffrey Holland in the St. George Temple on June 7, 1963.
She wrote several books, including “Strength and Stillness: A Message for Women,” “A Quiet Heart,” which won an Association for Mormon Letters Award, and, with her husband of 60 years, “On Earth as It Is in Heaven” along with “To Mothers: Carrying the Torch of Faith and Family.”
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Patricia T. Holland received the Distinguished Alumnus Award during the LDS Business College (now Ensign College) in April 2012 commencement ceremonies at the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Holland died Thursday, July 20, 2023.
She died Thursday after a brief hospitalization.
Read more about her personal life and her public service in the 17 million-member global faith here.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The Holland family in Snow Canyon near St. George in July 2021.
