PASSINGS : Victor Holt Jr.; Former Goodyear President

Victor Holt Jr., 79, former president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. who worked in sales before returning to Akron in 1942 as manager of the company’s sales promotion department. In 1944 he was named manager of tire sales; in 1949, vice president of sales; in 1956, corporate vice president; in 1958, executive vice president of sales, and in 1964, president. Holt retired in 1972 and moved to Palm Beach, Fla., where he died on Saturday of the complications of Parkinson’s disease.