Riverton • To many people, Laurie Holt will be remembered as the Utah mother who tirelessly fought for nearly two years to have her son, Josh Holt, released from a Venezuelen jail.
At her funeral service on Saturday, those closest to her remembered her not just for these heroic actions she took on behalf of her son — but all the other ways she championed for her children, cared for her husband and showed compassion for her friends.
“She fought so hard in every single thing she did,” Josh Holt told hundreds of mourners who gathered inside a Latter-day Saints church in Riverton.