Great Falls, MT, Montana
Cecil Y. "Jack" Holland Jr.
1931 — 2021
Cecil Y. Holland, Jr. began his remarkable trek through life on April 27, 1931 at the hospital in Billings, MT because the hospital in Hardin was not yet built. Jack, as he was widely known, spent the first eighteen years of his life in Big Horn County shooting things, riding things, raising things, and studying things. Jack graduated from Hardin High in 1949 as its valedictorian, football captain, two-time state champion point guard (feel free to google Cecil the Diesel), first chair coronet, student council president and saddle bronc champ. By the time Jack matriculated to Montana State College on a football scholarship he was grounded in his love of God, family, and country. Jack earned...