By John Dobberstein, Editor
A memorial service will be held Friday for Jerome Jae “Jick” Holden, a sport clay shooting champion from Broken Harrow.
Holden, 83, passed away March 5 in Broken Arrow. He was the son of Johnson Rae and Lora Mae (Turner) Holden.
Holden was born Aug. 27, 1940 in Dodge City, Kan. and raised on a farm north of Cimarron, Kan., graduating from Cimarron High School in 1958.
He attended Dodge City Junior College where he met Peggy Lee Schilling. Jerome and Peggy later married in 1960 and moved to Wichita. He attended the University of Wichita for one year before getting a job in the printing business where he spent the next 35 years.
A member of the Oil Capital Gun Club in Broken Arrow, Jerome’s hobbies included hunting, fishing, dirt bike racing and shooting trap, skeet and sporting clays.
He got into sporting clays in the late 1980s and became a National Sporting Clays Assn. Level 3 instructor. He was also an Oklahoma State Sporting Clays Assn. champion, winning it all in 1990, 2001 and 2009.
Sporting clays was his favorite sport and he enjoyed it until he could no longer do it, his family said, adding that Holden “had a passion to do the best he could in everything he did.”
Jerome is survived by his wife, Peggy Holden; son, Harvey Holden; sister, Jacqueline Holland; brother, James and Judy Holden; best friends, Jerry Bassett and Larry Sissell.
Jerome was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Germain Holden.
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