Hendersonville Times-News (online edition)
Hendersonville, NC

January 3, 2003

Mary A. Holt, 83
Mary Aiken Kishpaugh Holt, 83, of Columbia, S.C., died Wednesday, Jan. 1,
2003, in the Life Care Center in Columbia following an extended illness.

She was a native of Transylvania County and lived in Henderson County most
of her life. She was a daughter of the late Caney and Daisy Aiken. She
was also preceded in death by her husbands, Claude Brown Kishpaugh in
1972 and Dr. Robert Earl Holt in 1984. She worked for First Union Bank
in Hendersonville as a teller for 15 years, retiring in 1974. She was
a very active member of Hendersonville First Baptist Church and was a
member of the Rob Morris Chapter 299 of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include five children, Kathryn Semones and Mary Elizabeth
Brookshire and her husband, Michael, of Columbia, S.C., James Kishpaugh
and his wife, Margaret, of Houston, Texas, Carey Ann Godwin and her
husband, Mark, of Charleston, S.C., and Steven Kishpaugh and his wife,
Melissa, of Hendersonville; 17 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren;
two sisters, Betty Ann Pace of Hendersonville and Virginia Grossman of Oak
Ridge, Tenn.; three brothers, Hugh Aiken and Mack Aiken of Hendersonville
and Carey Aiken of Asheville; and many nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Forest Lawn
Memorial Park. The Rev. Wally Shamburger will officiate. The family
will be at the residence of Betty Ann Pace, 701 Oak Terrace Drive.
Memorials may be made to the Pre-school Children's Ministries at the
First Baptist Church, 312 Fifth Ave. W., Hendersonville, N.C. 28739,
Shandon Baptist Church, 5250 Forest Drive, Columbia, S.C. 29206, Deer
Park Baptist Church, 8875 University Blvd., North Charleston, S.C.
29406 or the children's ministry of the donor's choice.  Arrangements are
by Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors.