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Visitation:
Monday, May 26, 2025, from 4 - 7 p.m. at Holland
Barry & Bennett Funeral Home.
Service:
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at 11 a.m. at First
Presbyterian Church in Lincoln.
Funeral home: Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral
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Rhoda Elizabeth Holland, 83, of
Lincoln, passed away on Monday, May 19, 2025, at her
home in Lincoln.
Rhoda's funeral will be at 11:00 AM Tuesday, May 27,
2025, at First Presbyterian Church, 301 Pekin
Street, with Rev. Dr. Adam Quine officiating. Burial
will be in New Union Cemetery, Lincoln. Visitation
will be from 4:00-7:00 PM Monday, May 26, 2025, at
Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral Home.
Rhoda was born May 10, 1942, in Lincoln, the
daughter of Donald G. and Mildred (Rhoads) Holland.
Surviving is one sister, Martha Holland, of Lincoln.
Also surviving are close friends, Ginny and Chuck
McGee, Joel (Jacquelyn) Ritchhart, Robert (Jill)
Awe, special friends and neighbors, Whitney and Ben
Rekart. Rhoda was Aunt Rhoda to Lane (Kurt)
Hullinger, Case (Natalie) McGee, and Presley Rekart.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Rhoda graduated from Lincoln Community High School,
Class of 1960, and the University of Illinois, in
1964, where she majored in Elementary Education. She
was a member of Delta Delta Delta Social Sorority,
and she remained friends with some of her sorority
sisters throughout her lifetime.
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Rhoda was a retired kindergarten and
second grade teacher, having taught in Elmhurst,
Illinois and District 27 in Lincoln, mainly at Adams
School. She was a lifetime member of the First
Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, and the University of
Illinois Alumnae Association. She was an avid Illini
football and basketball fan. She enjoyed fishing for
catfish, especially at Lake of the Ozarks, working
in her yard, baking and cooking, and spending some
of the winter weeks in Florida.
Memorial donations can be made to Glioblastoma Brain
Cancer Research Foundation or Forst Presbyterian
Church and will be accepted at the funeral home.
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