The co-chairman of the Marley Holte Holiday Dinners asked Hollister council members Monday to name the grassy lot in the 400 block of San Benito Street as “Marley Holte Plaza” to honor the late Good Samaritan.
Lopez asked council members to memorialize the late founder of the city’s holiday dinners by naming the plot after him. Marley Holte and his wife at the time founded the annual Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners in the mid-1980s. Those dinners have continued on today, despite Holte’s passing in 2006.
The Thanksgiving dinners generally serve about 300 residents each year, with the Christmas dinners feeding about 500 people annually at the Sacred Heart gym.
“He should have some kind of tribute to him,” said Lopez, adding he could see the naming of the plot going along with plans for a statue there of the late Eric Tognazzini.
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