Passings: Bob Holland, Marion Reed

Longtime Oklahoma City banker Bob Holland has died at age 69. Holland was a member and chairman of the Bond Oversight Commission, appointed first by Governor Frank Keating, then by Governor Brad Henry. Henry also appointed him to the Commission on Consumer Credit, which he served as vice chairman. Holland was a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and in 1968, was named an Outstanding Young Man of America by the Jaycees.

Former Midwest City Mayor Marion C. Reed died at age 88. Reed was an organizer of Midwest City's first government and served on the city's first council. He was mayor for a total of 22 years and is credited with helping raise money to establish the city's first hospital, library, swimming pools and golf courses. Reed was a World War II Army Air Corps veteran who established Reed Tax Service in the mid-1940s and it remains in operation today.

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