While this is a very sad day for this family, there is only one thing that could make this day truly sad in any sort of eternal way, and that would be for us to turn our backs on the gospel of Jesus Christ to which your grandparents dedicated their lives

 [Jeffrey R. Holldand] was that witness to three children who loved him and 13 grandchildren who adored him.

Please permit me to say one thing to those grandchildren of Jeffrey R. and Patricia Terry Holland, and by extension to every member of this Church: While this is a very sad day for this family, there is only one thing that could make this day truly sad in any sort of eternal way, and that would be for us to turn our backs on the gospel of Jesus Christ to which your grandparents dedicated their lives

. The only way we could break their hearts is to abandon the source of truth and light that they lived and died to show us. Now it is time for each of us to pick up their baton and to carry on the fire of faith that they flamed within each of us

.Mary Alice McCann, Daughter of Jeffrey R. Holland, Funeral Service for Jeffrey R. Holland, December 31, 2025