{"id":21880,"date":"2003-03-02T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2003-03-02T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=21880"},"modified":"2018-03-02T13:26:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T18:26:56","slug":"2003-marion-lee-holland-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/mda-hall-of-fame\/2003\/03\/02\/2003-marion-lee-holland-family\/","title":{"rendered":"2003: Marion Lee Holland Family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: Executive Office of the Governor<\/p><\/div>\n

Family Name:\u00a0<\/strong>Holland Family<\/p>\n

Marion Lee Holland was a logger and farmer in his early years and later founded Glad-Mar Dairy Farm in Pocomoke City. The dairy is one of only two remaining in Worcester County. \u201cThey\u2019ve always been friends of extension, 4-H and the Worcester County Fair. They also hold an open house each spring for all of the elementary schools in the county,\u201d said Eddie Johnson of the University of Maryland\u2019s Wicomico County Cooperative Extension. The Holland\u2019s Glad-Mar Grain Farm and the Glad-Mar Dairy Farm are leaders in conservation practices, manure recycling and the use of winter cover crops. Marion has shown his dedication to the community by being an active member of many organizations including Maryland Farm Bureau where he has served as a past president, Worcester County 4-H Club, Board of Commissioners for the Maryland Game and Inland Fish Commission. His memberships included being a lifetime member of Pitts Creek Presbyterian Church where he served as past elder and trustee, past president of the Pocomoke Ruritan Club and founder and charter member of the Pocomoke YMCA. Marion has received awards for his achievements in agriculture including Jaycees\u2019 \u201cOutstanding Young Farmer\u201d of Worcester County and he won the 1957 Maryland Efficient Dairy Production Contest.<\/p>\n

Ceremony Date:\u00a0<\/strong>2\/5\/04<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family Name:\u00a0Holland Family Marion Lee Holland was a logger and farmer in his early years and later founded Glad-Mar Dairy Farm in Pocomoke City. The dairy is one of only two remaining in Worcester County. \u201cThey\u2019ve always been friends of extension, 4-H and the Worcester County Fair. They also hold an open house each spring  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mda-hall-of-fame"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21994,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions\/21994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}