Nicholas Holt IV

of Benjamin Dean Holt and Loretta Holt, and the grandson of

Benjamin Leroy Holt and Ann Brown Holt, a descendant of

Stockton pioneers. Nick's grandfather was the founder of Holt

Machinery Company of Stockton in 1892, and inventor of the

steam traction engine, and later the first working crawler tracktype

tractor, founding with those products what eventually grew

to become the Caterpillar Corporation.

Nick completed his secondary education in Stockton before

attending the University of California, Berkeley. Nick was an avid

participant in Zeta Psi fraternity, graduating from University of

California in 1959. He subsequently attended University of

California Los Angeles Business School.

He served in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington,

then entering the stock brokerage business with Shuman Agnew

Investment Company in San Francisco. Nick subsequently established

Nicholas Holt Securities on Pine Street in San Francisco,

serving as President, and purchasing a seat on the Pacific Coast

Stock Exchange. In recent years, Nick and his wife lived in

Sausalito, California, prior to their retirement and move to

Angels Camp.

Nick was an active member of the Bohemian Club, and was honored

to have been a member of that organization's Old Guard.

He was also the senior member of Outpost Camp, having joined

the Bohemian Club in August 1964, and Outpost Camp shortly

afterwards, where he contributed mightily, bringing most interesting

and occasionally infamous guests.

Warm and cheery, generous to a fault with precious time and resources,

all who knew him experienced Nick's warm and sincere

greetings, delivered from a full smile on a tanned face. Educated

in history, the arts and classics in his formative years, erudite and

well travelled, Nick held his own in intellectual discussions on

matters of state, the world and the financial markets.

Nick's passions were his wife, family and friends. He was blessed

with a full and active life highlighted by thirty-one years of international

travel with his wife; tennis and golf at Angels Camp, water

skiing and boating at Lake Tahoe with his wife, children and

grandchildren; and avidly cheering in support of his son Nick V's

football games while playing linebacker at the University of the

Pacific and later coaching at the college level.

Nick is survived by his loving wife, Penelope Wayte Holt, of

Sausalito and Angels Camp, California, a professor of Speech

Pathology at San Francisco State University; his son Nicholas V,

of Bowling Green, Kentucky and two daughters, Linden, of

Brooklyn, New York and Deana, of Tampa, Florida; two brothers,

B.D. "Peter" of San Antonio, Texas, and Donald, of San Luis

Obispo, California, and his sister, Catharine Holt, of Angels

Camp, California; Nephews Peter Martin Holt of San Antonio,

Texas, Benjamin Holt of Louisville, Kentucky, and Kenneth

Besser, of San Francisco; Cousin Douglas Holt of San Mateo,

California; and an extended family of nieces, nephews, and

grandchildren.

Grieved for sure by Penny, his children, and his extended family,

Nick will be remembered fondly in legend by his friends and pals

at Outpost Camp and elsewhere in the Bohemian Club, and by

others within his various communities at University of California

Berkeley, San Francisco, Sausalito, Angels Camp, and everywhere

else he touched someone's life. We were privileged to

share Nick's life, for which we are all rich beneficiaries and better

off.

Nick will be interred at 11 am in the Holt Family Mausoleum at

Stockton Rural Cemetery, in Stockton, California on May 14,

2015, attended by family and close friends.

A celebration of Nick's life will be commemorated on Monday

May 18, 2015, at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco.

Arrangements under the direction of Deyoung Memorial Chapel, STOCKTON, CA.