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FILE - In this May 28, 2018, file photo, Laurie Holt, left, walks out of the airport with her son, Josh Holt, walking behind her, after returning to Salt Lake City after Josh and his family received medical care and visited President Donald Trump in Washington. Laurie Holt, a Utah woman who spent nearly two years pushing to get her son freed from a Venezuelan jail, has died at age 50. (AP Photo/Kim Raff, File)

Mother who helped free son from Venezuelan jail praised

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FILE - In this May 28, 2018, file photo, Laurie Holt, left, walks out of the airport with her son, Josh Holt, walking behind her, after returning to Salt Lake City after Josh and his family received medical care and visited President Donald Trump in Washington. Laurie Holt, a Utah woman who spent nearly two years pushing to get her son freed from a Venezuelan jail, has died at age 50. (AP Photo/Kim Raff, File)

Funeral Saturday for mom of man freed from Venezuela jail

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FILE - In this July 13, 2016 file photo, Laurie Holt holds a photograph of her son Joshua Holt at her home in Riverton, Utah. Holt, a Utah woman who spent nearly two years pushing to get her son freed from a Venezuelan jail, has died at age 50. Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love said Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, that Holt died unexpectedly Sunday at her home in the Salt Lake City suburb of Riverton. Love says Laurie Holt's husband Jason Holt went to wake her for church and found her unresponsive. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mother of Utah man freed from Venezuela jail last year dies

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Josh Holt, left, is draped in an America flag by his grandmother, Linda Holt, upon returning to Salt Lake City on Monday, May 28, 2018, as he was freed this weekend after being held in a Venezuelan jail for nearly two years. He returned home to Salt Lake City on Monday night after getting medical care and visiting President Donald Trump in Washington. (AP Photo/Kim Raff)

American freed from Venezuela jail returns home to Salt Lake

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

ADDS NAME OF DAUGHTER - In this image provided by the Holt family, Joshua Holt, his wife Thamara and her daughter Marian Leal, board a plane at the airport in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May 26, 2018. Jailed in Venezuela on weapons charges nearly two years ago, Holt was released Saturday after a U.S. senator pressed for his freedom in a surprise meeting with President Nicolas Maduro. Holt and his wife, who also jailed, were reunited with her daughter from a previous relationship at Caracas’ airport where the three boarded a chartered flight to Washington. (Holt family photo via AP)

American freed from Venezuelan jail returns home to Utah

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

In this July 13, 2016 file photo, Laurie Holt holds a photograph of her son Josh Holt at her home, in Riverton, Utah. Josh Holt has been released from a jail in Venezuela after spending nearly two years behind bars on weapons charges. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said on Twitter Saturday, May 26, 2018, that Joshua Holt had been released. President Donald Trump tweeted that it was “good news,” adding that Holt “should be landing in D.C. this evening and be in the White House, with his family, at about 7:00 P.M.” (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) **FILE**

Freed after 2 years, man jailed in Venezuela returns to US

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 13, 2016, file photo, Laurie Holt holds a photograph of her son Joshua Holt, who has been jailed in Venezuela for several months, at her home, in Riverton, Utah. Laurie issuing another tearful plea for help, this time to President Donald Trump. She said in her new YouTube video that her son Joshua = did nothing wrong and is being used as &quot;political pawn&quot; by Venezuela's government. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mother asks Trump to help free son jailed in Venezuela

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press