{"id":5408,"date":"2025-03-24T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2025-03-24T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:27:48","slug":"holden-t-schmidt-20-of-stewardson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/5408-holden-t-schmidt-20-of-stewardson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Holden T. Schmidt (20) of Stewardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Holden T. Schmidt, 20 of Stewardson, passed away Wednesday, March 19, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. (noon) on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at Bauer Funeral Home in Effingham, with burial in Richland Cemetery, Strasburg. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. to the time of service on Wednesday at the funeral home. Those in attendance are asked to wear pink or something bright colored. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to the family to assist with final expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Holden was born April 26, 2004 in Effingham, the son of Steven Schmidt and April Ulmer. He loved all sports, but especially football. Holden was a leader; the first to jump off the bridge, not follow.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his mother, April Ulmer; father, Steve Schmidt; brother, Bryce Ulmer; grandmother, Phylis Thomas; grandparents, Bob and Kathey Gray; uncles and aunts, Garrett (Jamie) Ulmer, Harley (Stacy) Gray, Hunter (Faith) Gray, Mel (Amy) Gray, Steve Gray, and Rob (Sarah) Quast; grandfather, Steve Ulmer; great-grandmother, Beulah \u201cMimi\u201d Ulmer, as well as many cousins and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Holden was preceded in death by his grandmother, \u201cGranny\u201d Becky Ulmer; grandfather, Oscar Thomas; great-grandparents, Gale and Dorothy Kuhring; great-grandfather, Richard Ulmer, and his aunt, Sandy Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holden died on Wednesday, March 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Holden T. 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