Obituaries
Community Supporter Clementi Holder Dies in Athens, Ga.
The widow of radio executive H. Randolph Holder, remarried to Bob Saveland, Mrs. Holder gave generously to various Athens community groups, causes and institutions.
One of Athens' most easily recognizable residents--if you were judging on laughs alone--has died. Clementi Holder died Tuesday in Athens, having suffered a stroke last fall. Her first husband, H. Randolph Holder, and she had four children. After his death, she married Bob Saveland.
Clementi Holder was a Girl Scout for 80 years. Last April, she received the Golden Eaglet Award from the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia. Here's what the story said about her award:
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As a Girl Scout in Kentucky, Clementi Lacy-Baker came one or two tasks short of completing the required badge work for the Golden Eaglet award during the regular program year. She planned to complete those requirements at summer camp, but camp assignments kept her too busy to pursue. The next year, Girl Scouts revised the award and its components, which would have required her to start from the beginning again. With too little time to complete the new award before “aging out” of the awards process, Holder set her sights on other goals. Holder has remained a loyal Girl Scout for years and became an influential Girl Scout troop leader, inspiring generations of girls.
Among other things, she was an avid supporter of the Athens Symphony and the UGA Performing Arts Center. She was a Rotarian. And she was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
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Here's what UGA President Michael Adams had to say about her passing:
"H. Randolph and Clementi Holder were two of the first people we met upon arrival in Athens 16 years ago. They have been dear friends and great supporters of the university and the community in every way. Clementi, with that wonderful, big laugh, loved the Girl Scouts, the Performing Arts Center, the Georgia Museum of Art and many other causes both on and off campus. This community and the Bulldog nation are much poorer today because of her passing. Mary and I feel a great sense of loss and extend our deepest sympathies to Clementi's current husband, Bob Saveland, and to the entire Holder family."
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