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Holly Baer death claim — investigation sources (fetched 2026-07-19)

Source: Wikipedia (with edit history) / Corrales Comment / Wikidata / Blaney Funeral Home

Fetched: 2026-07-19 Reliability: high for the negative result (absence of any death record across 9+ independent obituary/genealogy sources); high for the Wikipedia edit-history finding (directly verified); the “likely origin” identification is a reasonable inference, not a confirmed causal link.

No death record found

Exhaustive search across FindAGrave, Legacy.com, Dignity Memorial, the Albuquerque Journal, and the Corrales Comment’s own site search index (which already covered Steve Baer’s June 2024 death in detail) turned up no obituary, death notice, or genealogy record for a Holly Baer connected to Corrales/Albuquerque NM, Zomeworks, or Stephen C. Baer. The Corrales Comment’s live site search (corralescomment.com/?s=Holly+Baer, run 2026-07-19) returns only a 2021 feature on Corrales sustainable homes and Steve Baer’s own June 2024 obituary — nothing else.

Wikipedia edit history — key finding

The current Wikipedia “Steve Baer” article (Death section) reads:

“Zomeworks Corporation is now solely owned by Benjamin Rodefer. Other key figures at Zomeworks throughout the years include Holly Baer, serving as the Director of Administration, Mike Elliston (as a Director) and David Nevin as Vice President.”

This passage was last edited 2026-07-06, 14:38 UTC, by editor “JoseBaer”, edit summary: “fixed confusion over ownership and governance history of Zomeworks.” Given Jose Baer is Steve and Holly’s son and a documented, named figure in this KB’s own archive (estate executor, Solar Fools member), an editor with that exact username making a deliberate correction to “ownership and governance history” thirteen days before this research — and choosing present-tense language (“serving as”) for his mother — is strong, recent, plausibly-insider evidence that Holly Baer was alive as of early July 2026. This is not proof (Wikipedia usernames are unverified), but it is materially stronger than the generic tertiary-source citation this KB previously relied on.

Wikidata’s Steve Baer entry (Q7611845) has no spouse property and no linked Holly Baer item — no death data either way there.

Likely origin of the false claim

Two independent research passes surfaced the same candidate explanation: an obituary for “Holly S. Baer” (full name Holly S. Borremans Baer), age 69, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, died November 30, 2024, published by Blaney Funeral Home (blaneyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/holly-baer). Verified via direct fetch: survived by children Aaron and Andrea Baer, siblings with surname Borremans/Kroll/Riha — no connection to Zomeworks, Steve Baer, Corrales, New Mexico, or solar energy whatsoever. Different birth year, different state, different family. This is very likely the source of the “died 2025” confusion (a same-name coincidence, roughly six months after Steve Baer’s own death, easy to conflate), though this KB’s own audit trail also identified a separate contributing factor: an earlier over-read of the Wikipedia ownership passage as implying death. Both may have compounded.

Remaining honest limits

This is a strong negative result (absence of any death record across many independent sources) plus one recent, plausibly-insider-sourced present-tense mention — not a direct confirmation (e.g., a phone call to Zomeworks, a dated 2026 interview, or a fresh obituary check performed after this date). The most reliable way to fully close this out would be a direct contact with Zomeworks Corporation.

Supporting URLs

Source: web research compiled 2026-07-19 via /wiki:research “Holly Baer obituary” (5-agent parallel search).