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==Background==

==Background==

A native of Clarkson in Colfax County in eastern [[Nebraska]] , he graduated in 1932 from Clarkson High School and obtained his undergraduate and medical credentials through the University of Nebraska at [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]]. Holoubek and his wife, the former Alice Baker (1914-2005), a native of Paragould in Greene County, [[Arkansas]]. She was the daughter of a physician, and graduated from Bolton High School in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] and the LSU School of Medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27381352/alice-holoubek|title=Dr. Alice Baker |publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref> The Holoubek began their practice of intenal medicine together in Shreveport in 1945 and embarked on a career of more than four decades thereafter.  The couple met in 1937 at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, [[Minnesota]], as senior medical students in a summer fellowhip program in pathology. They courted by mail for two years until their marriage and pursuit of a joint medical career beginning as postgraduate fellows at the LSU Medical School in [[New Orleans]]. From 1941 to 1945, Holoubek served in the [[United States Army]] Medical Corps.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=88157852|title=Joe Holoubek obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=May 19, 2007|accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>

A native of Clarkson in Colfax County in eastern [[Nebraska]], he graduated in 1932 from Clarkson High School and obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska at [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]] and his medical credentials from the University of Nebraska Medical School in [[Omaha]]. Holoubek was married for sixty-six years to the former Alice Baker (1914-2005), a native of Paragould in Greene County, [[Arkansas]]. The daughter of a physician, Alice graduated from Bolton High School in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, and the LSU School of Medici in [[New Orleans]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27381352/alice-holoubek|title=Dr. Alice Baker |publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>  

 

The Holoubek began their practice of intenal medicine together in Shreveport in 1945 and embarked on a career of more than four decades thereafter.  The couple met in 1937 at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, [[Minnesota]], as senior medical students in a summer fellowhip program in pathology. They courted by mail for two years until their marriage and pursuit of a joint medical career beginning as postgraduate fellows at the LSU Medical School in [[New Orleans]]. From 1941 to 1945, Holoubek served in the [[United States Army]] Medical Corps.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=88157852|title=Joe Holoubek obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=May 19, 2007|accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>

==Career==

==Career==

==Death and family==

==Death and family==

Two years after the passing of his wife, Joe Holoubek died in a Shreveport hospital at the age of ninety-one. The couple is interred at  

Two years after the passing of his wife, Joe Holoubek died in a Shreveport hospital at the age of ninety-one. The couple is interred at  

Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=obit/> The Holoubeks had two sons, Brian Baker Holoubek, Sr. (1945-2017), a farmer in Kingston in DeSoto Parish<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175117690/brian-baker-holoubek|title=Brian Baker Holoubek, Sr. obituary|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>, and Robert Joseph "Bob" Holoubek (born June 18, 1948), a staff pharmacist at the Overton Brooks Veterans Medical Center in Shrevepo rt, and two daughters, Mary Jo O'Rear (born 1943) of [[Corpus Christi]], [[Texas]], who was employed by South Texas Community College,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Mary-H-O'rear/Corpus%20Christi-TX|title=Mary Jo O'Rear|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref> and Martha H. Fitzgerald (born August 22, 1951), the wife of Thomas Patrick Fitzgerald, III, of Shreveport.<ref name=obit/>  

Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=obit/> The Holoubeks had two sons, Brian Baker Holoubek, Sr. (1945-2017), a farmer in Kingston in DeSoto Parish<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175117690/brian-baker-holoubek|title=Brian Baker Holoubek, Sr. obituary|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>, and Robert Joseph "Bob" Holoubek (born June 18, 1948), a staff pharmacist at the Overton Brooks Veterans Medical Center in Shrevepo rt, and two daughters, Mary Jo O'Rear (born 1943) of [[Corpus Christi]], [[Texas]], who was employed by South Texas Community College,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Mary-H-O'rear/Corpus%20Christi-TX|title=Mary Jo O'Rear|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref> and Martha H. Fitzgerald (born August 22, 1951), the wife of Thomas Patrick Fitzgerald, III, of Shreveport.<ref name=obit/>  

A former columnist for ''The Shreveport Times'', Martha Fitzgerald wrote a book in 2012 about her parents, ''The Courtship of Two Doctors: A  1930s Love Story of Letters, Hope & Healing,'' published by her Little Dove Press.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marthafitzgerald.com/books/

A former columnist for ''The Shreveport Times'', Martha Fitzgerald wrote a book in 2012 about her parents, ''The Courtship of Two Doctors: A  1930s Love Story of Letters, Hope & Healing,'' published by her Little Dove Press.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marthafitzgerald.com/books/

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