HOLLAND, Ernest Minton^[1]

1918 - 2001  (82 years)

 Set As Default Person

• Name	HOLLAND, Ernest Minton  [1]
  Birth	25 September 1918	Greenville County, South Carolina, United States of America   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 September 2001  [1]
  Burial	Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina, United States of America   [1]
  Notes	E. Minton Holland Obituary The Honorable E. Minton Holland, Esq., 83, died Saturday, Sept. 1, 2001, at Hillcrest Hospital. He was the widower of Betty Shoup Holland and was a son of the late Samuel Townes and Isola McHugh Holland. He was a member of Bethel United Methodist Church. He graduated from Simpsonville High School in 1935 and from the University of South Carolina in 1940, where he served as president of the Young Democrats and the Clariosophic Society. As a youth he worked on the family farm and at Dunean Mill. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1940 and served until 1942 while attending law school. In 1942 he was admitted to the practice of law and went to Washington where he worked as an attorney in the Lands Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. After brief service in the U.S. Navy in 1943, he returned to civilian federal service at Justice and the General Accounting Office. Mr. Holland attended night classes at Georgetown University where he earned a bachelor of laws degree in 1944 and a master of laws degree in 1948. He was with the War Assets Administration in the late 1940s when the General Services Administration was formed. Until his retirement in 1979, he worked at GSA, where he rose to the highest level of the career civil service, earned numerous commendations for outstanding performance and became the federal government's foremost legal authority on real estate and served as a consultant to other federal agencies. Highlights of his career included the sale of numerous federally owned facilities in the aluminum and pharmaceutical industries after World War II and the negotiations related to the bailout of Lockheed. Until the mid-1980s he lived in Arlington, Va., where he was a member of Cherrydale United Methodist Church and an officer of the Bellevue Forest Civic Association. Surviving are his son, J. Keen Holland of Pennsylvania; and a brother, Dr. Malvern C. Holland of Greenville. Mr. Holland was predeceased by his sister, Nettie Ruth Riddle; and a brother, Samuel Townes Holland Jr. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2001, at 2 p.m. at Bethel United Methodist Church, with burial in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8 tonight at Cannon Funeral Home-Jones Chapel in Simpsonville. In lieu of flowers, those desiring may make memorials to Bethel United Methodist Church, 501 Holland Road, Simpsonville, SC 29681. - Cannon Funeral Home-Jones Chapel, Simpsonville. Published in The Greenville News on Sept. 4, 2001
  Person ID	I422181728153	Ancestry dot com tree
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2025

  
  

  Family	SHOUP, Betty Jane,   b. 17 Oct 1920, Battle Groun, Indiana d. 8 Aug 1992 (Age 71 years)
  Children	1. HOLLAND, J Keen,   b. 18 Mar 1950   d. 29 May 2016, Simpsonville, South Carolina (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F9922	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S1640033450] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).