Emily Jones
| Emily Jones | |||||||
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| Sex | F | ||||||
| Birth name | Emily Jones | ||||||
| Birth date | 1970 | ||||||
| Spouse | Kevin Holst | ||||||
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Emily Holst née Jones is a member of the Bradford High School's class of 1988 with Jennlynn Swift. She got married right after graduation to a somewhat-older Kevin Holst. She had one child (Kayla) and another on the way when Jennlynn was thrown out of her house at the beginning of the summer of 1990 and needed a ride back to the airport. Her second child, Jason, was born in August.
Emily would continue working at the Spee-D-Mart while Kevin worked at Macy Controls. Their hobbies include riding on Kevin's Harley. Kevin served in the military after high school and before getting married. He certainly knew about Mustang Ranch, if not actually visited it.
Emily was known as the class gossip and Jennlynn used that knowledge to send information back about her situation, including clues, over the subsequent years. She, with Vicky Varney, organized the 10th year High School reunion that featured prominently in Magic Carpet Chapter 26, and equally prominently in The Girl in the Mirror starting with chapter 2.
Emily kept in touch with many of the Class of 1988 and called on members to help each other at various times. Notably organising support for Dayna Berkshire's solo tour,HT24 getting Shae Kirkendahl to find Dave Patterson and his sons when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed in 2001PUTP1 and organising his subsequent move back to Bradford.PUTP15
In late 1999 (probably November) she was elected mayor of Bradford by the town council.HS27
She started working part-time for Lloyd Weber at the Bradford Courier covering the Bradford Chamber of CommerceHS24 while working at the Spee-D-Mart. When Weber experienced a serious heart attack in February 2002, he decided to retire.PUTP35 On April 1, 2002, Weber sold the paper to a corporation composed of Dave Patterson and Emily. Dave would provide the financing, and become the publisher and Chairman; while Emily would be the majority owner (with a loan from Dave), the editor and the CEO.PUTP38.
Emily welcomed Jennlynn when Jennlynn returned to reconcile with her parents in 2002. Her father is likely Dick Jones who appears in the Bradford Prologue.
Emily and Vicky organised the class twenty year reunion which is the subject of Reunion, the final book in the Bradford Exiles series, as well as featuring in The Last Place You Look Chapter 27.
