Sunday, May 19, 2002

World War II Navy veteran

Andrew Holda, 87, of Nemacolin, died Saturday, May 18, 2002, in Patrician Nursing Home, North Royalton, Ohio.

He was born October 23, 1914, in Edenborn, a son of Adam and Anna Lucas Holda.

Mr. Holda served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and retired after 21 years as a chief commissary steward.

He also retired from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board in Carmichaels.

Surviving are two sisters, Kay Trojan and Mary Dupey, both of Cleveland, Ohio.

Deceased are his wife, Mildred Holda, who died in 1971; and a stepson, John Barnhart, who died in 1980.