David Holwick
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William David Holwick was born at U.S. Army "Camp Drew " in what was then known as Koizumi, Japan, on 27 Sep 1955. His father was a captain in the Army. The family returned to the United States in 1957 and subsequently lived in Fort Benning, Georgia; Columbus, Georgia; St. Louis, Missouri; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Syracuse, New York; Munich, West Germany; Berlin, West Germany; Salina, Kansas; Heidelberg, Germany; Fort Meade, Maryland; and Colorado Springs, Colorado.
David graduated from Heidelberg American High School in 1974, Wheaton College (Illinois) in 1978, and Gordon-Conwell Seminary in 1982. He had become a Christian on 27 Feb 1973. He married Celeste Mary Triehy on 9 Aug 1980 in Pepperell, Massachusetts, and they moved to serve the First Baptist Church of West Lafayette, Ohio, in 1982. David was ordained in the American Baptist Churches (USA). In 1989 they moved to the First Baptist Church of Ledgewood, New Jersey, and served there for 29 years. In 2018 they retired to Boothbay, Maine. They have four children and as of October 2020, six grandchildren and foster-grandchildren.
David inherited the genealogy bug from his father, Col. William B. Holwick, who had been inspired by the "Roots" mini-series on TV in 1977.
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