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Cullen Joe Holland
Aug 31, 1915 - Jan 10, 2007
Posted by: Jo Aguirre
 
http://www.havenbrookfuneralhome.com/

C. Joe Holland, 91, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, at home in Norman. No services are planned at this time. Arrangements are under the direction of Havenbrook Funeral Home of Norman.

Mr. Holland graduated from Blackwell High School and attended Northern Oklahoma Junior College in Tonkawa before coming to the University of Oklahoma where he earned a B.S. Degree and Master's Degree in journalism. He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.

He married Mary Marie Battle in Norman, Oklahoma, in December 1947.

During World War 2, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

Mr. Holland returned to the University of Oklahoma where he was a professor of journalism for more than 40 years. He was Director of the School of Journalism during the 1960's. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Delta Chi (the Society of Professional Journalists), and Kappa Tau Alpha ( the National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communications). He was selected to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1982.

He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers Dick Dempsey Holland, Loyal Wells Holland, and Infant Holland.

Joe is survived by his wife of 59 years, Marie B. Holland, one daughter and her husband, one sister-in-law, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorial donations may be made to the C. Joe Holland Journalism Scholarship at the University of Oklahoma Foundation, 100 Timberdell, Norman, OK 73019 or to St. Stephen's United Methodist Church, 1801 W. Brooks, Norman, OK 73079.

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