September 17, 2020, Mardi Holland passes peacefully.

Margine Copeland McVey Holland (Mardi) was born to H.B. and Margine (Copeland) McVey June 6, 1923 on a farm near Hillsboro, Ohio.  She moved with her family to Philadelphia, was graduated from Abington Friends School, Jenkintown, PA. and was graduated from Oberlin College where she met F.D. (Bud) Holland, Jr.  They were married July 14, 1945, at the Abington Friends Meetinghouse in Jenkintown, Pa.  She was a member there at the time of her death.  They lived in Lawrence, Kansas, Columbia, Missouri and Cincinnati, Ohio before moving to Grand Forks at the start of the school year in 1954 where Bud taught geology at UND.  In Grand Forks, Mardi worked for the First Presbyterian Church, Wesley College and as Secretary for the Biology and Home Economics Departments at UND.  She was an active member of the American Association of University Women, served as board member and president of Home Delivered Meals at Altru Hospital, member of the Mayor's Committee for Community Development and as national contact person for the Grand Forks Quaker Worship Group.  In the fall of 2018, Mardi and Bud moved to Iowa City, Iowa to be nearer Del, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren who live in the area. Throughout her life, Mardi embodied the Quaker notion that everyone can "Brighten your own little corner ".

She is survived by her husband, F.D. (Bud), Holland Jr, sons, Del and his partner Barb Bailey, Iowa City, IA, Erik and wife Susan of Bismarck, ND, four grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.

Instead of sending a flower arrangement to the family of Margine "Mardi" Copeland Holland, please follow the families memorial wishes. The family suggests memorials to Home Delivered Meals at Altru Hospital or the F.D. Holland Jr. Geology & Geological Engineering Library at the University of North Dakota.

Burial: Will take place at Memorial Park North Cemetery, Grand Forks, ND.