Clara Strickland Holman

Posted on January 28, 2022

God called Clara Strickland Holman, 90, home on Jan. 23, 2022, at 1:10 p.m.

Clara was born in Dixie Country and moved to Steinhatchee when she was four months

old.

She was predeceased in death by: her infant son, Donnie Edwin Hamilton; parents,

Braz and Mabel Carmichael; sister, Helen Files; brother, Gary Carmichael; grandson, Kristopher

Wayne Pridgeon; and late husbands, Eddie Jacob Hamilton, Preston Ray Strickland and Harold Douglas Holman.

Survivors include: siblings, Richard Carmichael (Gwen) Steinhatchee, Evelena

Whiddon of St. Johns, Fla., Gloria Versurah of Tampa, Betty Green (late John

Green) of Steinhatchee, Irene Grant of Orlando; Ed Hamilton (Ann) of Winter Haven, Bonnie Rooks (Eddie) of Steinhatchee and Linda Bryant (Wayne) of Steinhatchee; and stepchildren, Michael Strickland, Stephen Strickland and Teresa Kincaid, all of Orlando, and Debra Miller, Dorinda Bouboulis and Brenda Costner, all of Boone, N.C.; along with a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Clara was a member of First Baptist Church and Fellowship Baptist Church during her years in

Steinhatchee. She enjoyed her family and all of her friends who were like family as well.

She enjoyed fishing, reading, cooking and doing for others, beautiful flowers and plants, traveling,

shopping at her favorite little stores and watching all kinds of nature and birds on the Steinhatchee River.

She worked for 17 years for the property appraiser’s office (three years in Perry and 14 years in Orlando), retiring as supervisor over N.A.L (name, address, legal).

One of her proudest accomplishments while in Orlando was being voted “Woman of the Year”

for the American Business Woman’s Association and representing Orlando in San Juan, Puerto

Rico.

She served as treasurer, vice president and president of the Steinhatchee Chapter of the AARP.

Clara was awarded “Volunteer of the Year” in 1998 for the Steinhatchee AARP.

She was chairman of the first “Fiesta in the Park” fundraiser for the community center building and ran the Country Store for years, gifting scholarships with the proceeds.

Clara was elected to the Board of the Tri-County Electric Co-Op on Sept. 17, 1994, and served

continuously as a trustee until Sept. 15, 2012. Clara served the cooperative in the following

capacities for 18 years, vice president of TCEC from September 2005 to September 2008, on the Board of Directors of Florida Electric Cooperative Association from October 1994 to June 2006 and on

the Board of Trustees of Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc. from June 2006 to September 2012.

Funeral and visitation services will be held at Waters Memorial Gardens Cemetery on Saturday,

Jan. 29, at 1p.m. 

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Kristopher’s Kloset and mail to P.O. Box 477, Cross

City, Fla., 32628. Please reference Clara Holman on the memo on the check.

Kristopher’s Kloset is a ministry that serves all schools in Dixie County and Taylor at the Steinhatchee School. It provides backpacks, jackets, shoes, socks, clothes and so many things to help children who  are in need. There is nothing more Clara would want than to help another person and donate to her late grandson Kristopher’s ministry.

Burns Funeral Home is in charge of all arrangements.

You may sign the guest book at: www.joepburnsfuneralhomes.com