Kenneth Monroe Holland
Kenneth Monroe Holland, descendant of a pioneer Burnet County family, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 in the same house where he had been born 93 years earlier.
The third of four children of Ealy and Olive Hays Holland, Kenneth was raised on the family ranch near Mormon Mill, and graduated from Marble Falls High School in 1941.
Along with many other members of The Greatest Generation, he answered his country's call, serving in the United States Army Air Corps in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.
Upon discharge after the war, he worked as an aircraft mechanic for the Air Force at Kelly Air Force Base, retiring in 1970.
After retirement, he returned to the family ranch, where he spent the next four decades doing all the things he loved - raising cattle, doing construction and landscaping, hunting, maintaining the spread, enjoying family life, and participating in church and community activities.
