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CITADEL ALUMNI OBITUARY
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008...5:34 am
Bruce F. Holland '54
Bruce F. Holland
FOREST ACRES. A memorial service for Bruce F. Holland, 79, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 16, 2008 at CAUGHMAN-HARMAN FUNERAL HOME, IRMO/ST. ANDREWS CHAPEL. The family will receive visitors immediately following the service with a reception at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Heartland Hospice House, 141 Stoneridge Drive, Columbia, SC 29210 or to the SPCA, 121 Humane Lane, Columbia, SC 29209.
Mr. Holland, born in Dolomite, Alabama, passed away on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 after an extended illness. He was a son of the late Roy and Kathleen Johnson Holland. Mr. Holland served in the United States Navy aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Boxer. He was an honor graduate of the Citadel and he retired as an electrical engineering executive with South Carolina Electric and Gas.
Mr. Holland was a former member of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia, Mensa, Intertel, The Citadel Alumni Association, the Honor Society of Engineering and the SPCA.
Mr. Holland is survived by his wife, Eunice Tootsie Holland; sisters, Doris Smith of Summerville, Barbara Freeland of Batesburg and many nieces and nephews.
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Bruce Frederick Holland was the second child of Roy Edward and Kathleen Johnson Holland. The family was living in Royal Oak near Detroit, Michigan. However, Kathleen wanted to be with her mother, Nancy Angeline Johnson, during the birth, so she and 20 month old Eddie Doris traveled to Dolomite, Alabama. When Bruce was a couple of months old, they traveled by train back to Detroit to meet his father, Roy, who worked for Henry Ford Motor Company as a Tool and Dye maker until the Depression closed the plant in 1931. The Holland family returned to Alabama where they had family to help as there were no jobs anywhere.
Bruce started school in Carrville, Alabama. His best pal was Albert Peebles who lived down the road a short distance. Bruce was mischevious, once dumping beehives from an embankment on his sisters below causing honey bees to become entangled in their hair. He and Eddie Doris were always getting into fights with the Patillo boys. One day he came hopping onto the front porch where his mother was nursing the baby(Shirley) with blood trailing behind him and one of his toes hanging at an odd angle. Seems he had been in a fight with one of the Patillo boys who was threatening to cut his toe off with a hoe, so Bruce dared him to and he did, at least almost.
After moving to Fourth Street in East Tallassee, when his father became employed by the Cotton Mills, Bruce had another shock for his mother. He liked to go skinny-dipping with the kids in the creek near the house. One day he dove off the rocks into shallow water, hit a rock, and went floating downstream unconscious. Luckily he had a friend with him who could swim. When Bruce arrived home, blood was gushing from his head, his face and clothing covered in blood. His poor mother was almost overcome. Another time he got some spent bullet shells. He stuffed them with matchheads, and sitting on the back porch, laid a brick on the floor between his legs, placed the shells on the brick, then came down on the shells with a hammer, shooting himself in the leg.
Bruce attended schools in East Tallassee, Alabama, and stopped in the eleventh grade at North Charleston, South Carolina to serve 4 years in the United States Navy. After his discharge, he continued his education, graduating from Berkely High School on June 6, 1951. On that same night he eloped with Eunice (Tootsie)Baker Davis. He then entered the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina to obtain his B.S. Degree
Bruce retired fron South Carolina Electric & Gas and lived in Columbia, SC.
(SOURCE: The Holland And Johnson Lines And Related Families by Eddie Doris Holland Smith)
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BRUCE
By Roy Edward Holland
I have a son, who does things himself,
He doesn’t sit idle like a crock on a shelf
And wait for his father or some good elf
To make opportunities for him.
He didn’t mean to go through life half green
So he joined the navy at seventeen.
Now half the world he’s already seen,
Tho his purse is somewhat slim.
He earned his own fare through the Citadel.
His grades sometimes rose, sometimes fell,
But all in all he did very well,
Up near the head of his class.
He took engineering and got his B. S.
He intends to study more, rather than less;
He’ll get a Master’s Degree, I guess.
(A few more tests to pass.)
He was gone four years; I missed him lots,
I passed my time with the younger tots,
But seldom washed the pans and pots
To while the hours away.
When he goes again, he’ll be gone for years,
This time it will cost me sighs and tears,
For I’ll have already lost the younger dears,
They have gone away to stay.
However, I have the consolation:
I have a son to give my nation
Who can occupy a higher station
Than ever I could attain.
I shall follow hi life, and watch his rise
As he tries on the world for fit and size.
He’ll be a personage in my eyes,
And I’ll be happy again.
CITADEL ALUMNI OBITUARY
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008...5:34 am
Bruce F. Holland '54
Bruce F. Holland
FOREST ACRES. A memorial service for Bruce F. Holland, 79, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 16, 2008 at CAUGHMAN-HARMAN FUNERAL HOME, IRMO/ST. ANDREWS CHAPEL. The family will receive visitors immediately following the service with a reception at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Heartland Hospice House, 141 Stoneridge Drive, Columbia, SC 29210 or to the SPCA, 121 Humane Lane, Columbia, SC 29209.
Mr. Holland, born in Dolomite, Alabama, passed away on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 after an extended illness. He was a son of the late Roy and Kathleen Johnson Holland. Mr. Holland served in the United States Navy aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Boxer. He was an honor graduate of the Citadel and he retired as an electrical engineering executive with South Carolina Electric and Gas.
Mr. Holland was a former member of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia, Mensa, Intertel, The Citadel Alumni Association, the Honor Society of Engineering and the SPCA.
Mr. Holland is survived by his wife, Eunice Tootsie Holland; sisters, Doris Smith of Summerville, Barbara Freeland of Batesburg and many nieces and nephews.
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Bruce Frederick Holland was the second child of Roy Edward and Kathleen Johnson Holland. The family was living in Royal Oak near Detroit, Michigan. However, Kathleen wanted to be with her mother, Nancy Angeline Johnson, during the birth, so she and 20 month old Eddie Doris traveled to Dolomite, Alabama. When Bruce was a couple of months old, they traveled by train back to Detroit to meet his father, Roy, who worked for Henry Ford Motor Company as a Tool and Dye maker until the Depression closed the plant in 1931. The Holland family returned to Alabama where they had family to help as there were no jobs anywhere.
Bruce started school in Carrville, Alabama. His best pal was Albert Peebles who lived down the road a short distance. Bruce was mischevious, once dumping beehives from an embankment on his sisters below causing honey bees to become entangled in their hair. He and Eddie Doris were always getting into fights with the Patillo boys. One day he came hopping onto the front porch where his mother was nursing the baby(Shirley) with blood trailing behind him and one of his toes hanging at an odd angle. Seems he had been in a fight with one of the Patillo boys who was threatening to cut his toe off with a hoe, so Bruce dared him to and he did, at least almost.
After moving to Fourth Street in East Tallassee, when his father became employed by the Cotton Mills, Bruce had another shock for his mother. He liked to go skinny-dipping with the kids in the creek near the house. One day he dove off the rocks into shallow water, hit a rock, and went floating downstream unconscious. Luckily he had a friend with him who could swim. When Bruce arrived home, blood was gushing from his head, his face and clothing covered in blood. His poor mother was almost overcome. Another time he got some spent bullet shells. He stuffed them with matchheads, and sitting on the back porch, laid a brick on the floor between his legs, placed the shells on the brick, then came down on the shells with a hammer, shooting himself in the leg.
Bruce attended schools in East Tallassee, Alabama, and stopped in the eleventh grade at North Charleston, South Carolina to serve 4 years in the United States Navy. After his discharge, he continued his education, graduating from Berkely High School on June 6, 1951. On that same night he eloped with Eunice (Tootsie)Baker Davis. He then entered the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina to obtain his B.S. Degree
Bruce retired fron South Carolina Electric & Gas and lived in Columbia, SC.
(SOURCE: The Holland And Johnson Lines And Related Families by Eddie Doris Holland Smith)
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BRUCE
By Roy Edward Holland
I have a son, who does things himself,
He doesn’t sit idle like a crock on a shelf
And wait for his father or some good elf
To make opportunities for him.
He didn’t mean to go through life half green
So he joined the navy at seventeen.
Now half the world he’s already seen,
Tho his purse is somewhat slim.
He earned his own fare through the Citadel.
His grades sometimes rose, sometimes fell,
But all in all he did very well,
Up near the head of his class.
He took engineering and got his B. S.
He intends to study more, rather than less;
He’ll get a Master’s Degree, I guess.
(A few more tests to pass.)
He was gone four years; I missed him lots,
I passed my time with the younger tots,
But seldom washed the pans and pots
To while the hours away.
When he goes again, he’ll be gone for years,
This time it will cost me sighs and tears,
For I’ll have already lost the younger dears,
They have gone away to stay.
However, I have the consolation:
I have a son to give my nation
Who can occupy a higher station
Than ever I could attain.
I shall follow hi life, and watch his rise
As he tries on the world for fit and size.
He’ll be a personage in my eyes,
And I’ll be happy again.
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CITADEL ALUMNI OBITUARY
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008...5:34 am
Bruce F. Holland '54
Bruce F. Holland
FOREST ACRES. A memorial service for Bruce F. Holland, 79, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 16, 2008 at CAUGHMAN-HARMAN FUNERAL HOME, IRMO/ST. ANDREWS CHAPEL. The family will receive visitors immediately following the service with a reception at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Heartland Hospice House, 141 Stoneridge Drive, Columbia, SC 29210 or to the SPCA, 121 Humane Lane, Columbia, SC 29209.
Mr. Holland, born in Dolomite, Alabama, passed away on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 after an extended illness. He was a son of the late Roy and Kathleen Johnson Holland. Mr. Holland served in the United States Navy aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Boxer. He was an honor graduate of the Citadel and he retired as an electrical engineering executive with South Carolina Electric and Gas.
Mr. Holland was a former member of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia, Mensa, Intertel, The Citadel Alumni Association, the Honor Society of Engineering and the SPCA.
Mr. Holland is survived by his wife, Eunice Tootsie Holland; sisters, Doris Smith of Summerville, Barbara Freeland of Batesburg and many nieces and nephews.
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Bruce Frederick Holland was the second child of Roy Edward and Kathleen Johnson Holland. The family was living in Royal Oak near Detroit, Michigan. However, Kathleen wanted to be with her mother, Nancy Angeline Johnson, during the birth, so she and 20 month old Eddie Doris traveled to Dolomite, Alabama. When Bruce was a couple of months old, they traveled by train back to Detroit to meet his father, Roy, who worked for Henry Ford Motor Company as a Tool and Dye maker until the Depression closed the plant in 1931. The Holland family returned to Alabama where they had family to help as there were no jobs anywhere.
Bruce started school in Carrville, Alabama. His best pal was Albert Peebles who lived down the road a short distance. Bruce was mischevious, once dumping beehives from an embankment on his sisters below causing honey bees to become entangled in their hair. He and Eddie Doris were always getting into fights with the Patillo boys. One day he came hopping onto the front porch where his mother was nursing the baby(Shirley) with blood trailing behind him and one of his toes hanging at an odd angle. Seems he had been in a fight with one of the Patillo boys who was threatening to cut his toe off with a hoe, so Bruce dared him to and he did, at least almost.
After moving to Fourth Street in East Tallassee, when his father became employed by the Cotton Mills, Bruce had another shock for his mother. He liked to go skinny-dipping with the kids in the creek near the house. One day he dove off the rocks into shallow water, hit a rock, and went floating downstream unconscious. Luckily he had a friend with him who could swim. When Bruce arrived home, blood was gushing from his head, his face and clothing covered in blood. His poor mother was almost overcome. Another time he got some spent bullet shells. He stuffed them with matchheads, and sitting on the back porch, laid a brick on the floor between his legs, placed the shells on the brick, then came down on the shells with a hammer, shooting himself in the leg.
Bruce attended schools in East Tallassee, Alabama, and stopped in the eleventh grade at North Charleston, South Carolina to serve 4 years in the United States Navy. After his discharge, he continued his education, graduating from Berkely High School on June 6, 1951. On that same night he eloped with Eunice (Tootsie)Baker Davis. He then entered the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina to obtain his B.S. Degree
Bruce retired fron South Carolina Electric & Gas and lived in Columbia, SC.
(SOURCE: The Holland And Johnson Lines And Related Families by Eddie Doris Holland Smith)
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BRUCE
By Roy Edward Holland
I have a son, who does things himself,
He doesn’t sit idle like a crock on a shelf
And wait for his father or some good elf
To make opportunities for him.
He didn’t mean to go through life half green
So he joined the navy at seventeen.
Now half the world he’s already seen,
Tho his purse is somewhat slim.
He earned his own fare through the Citadel.
His grades sometimes rose, sometimes fell,
But all in all he did very well,
Up near the head of his class.
He took engineering and got his B. S.
He intends to study more, rather than less;
He’ll get a Master’s Degree, I guess.
(A few more tests to pass.)
He was gone four years; I missed him lots,
I passed my time with the younger tots,
But seldom washed the pans and pots
To while the hours away.
When he goes again, he’ll be gone for years,
This time it will cost me sighs and tears,
For I’ll have already lost the younger dears,
They have gone away to stay.
However, I have the consolation:
I have a son to give my nation
Who can occupy a higher station
Than ever I could attain.
I shall follow hi life, and watch his rise
As he tries on the world for fit and size.
He’ll be a personage in my eyes,
And I’ll be happy again.
CITADEL ALUMNI OBITUARY
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008...5:34 am
Bruce F. Holland '54
Bruce F. Holland
FOREST ACRES. A memorial service for Bruce F. Holland, 79, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 16, 2008 at CAUGHMAN-HARMAN FUNERAL HOME, IRMO/ST. ANDREWS CHAPEL. The family will receive visitors immediately following the service with a reception at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Heartland Hospice House, 141 Stoneridge Drive, Columbia, SC 29210 or to the SPCA, 121 Humane Lane, Columbia, SC 29209.
Mr. Holland, born in Dolomite, Alabama, passed away on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 after an extended illness. He was a son of the late Roy and Kathleen Johnson Holland. Mr. Holland served in the United States Navy aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Boxer. He was an honor graduate of the Citadel and he retired as an electrical engineering executive with South Carolina Electric and Gas.
Mr. Holland was a former member of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia, Mensa, Intertel, The Citadel Alumni Association, the Honor Society of Engineering and the SPCA.
Mr. Holland is survived by his wife, Eunice Tootsie Holland; sisters, Doris Smith of Summerville, Barbara Freeland of Batesburg and many nieces and nephews.
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Bruce Frederick Holland was the second child of Roy Edward and Kathleen Johnson Holland. The family was living in Royal Oak near Detroit, Michigan. However, Kathleen wanted to be with her mother, Nancy Angeline Johnson, during the birth, so she and 20 month old Eddie Doris traveled to Dolomite, Alabama. When Bruce was a couple of months old, they traveled by train back to Detroit to meet his father, Roy, who worked for Henry Ford Motor Company as a Tool and Dye maker until the Depression closed the plant in 1931. The Holland family returned to Alabama where they had family to help as there were no jobs anywhere.
Bruce started school in Carrville, Alabama. His best pal was Albert Peebles who lived down the road a short distance. Bruce was mischevious, once dumping beehives from an embankment on his sisters below causing honey bees to become entangled in their hair. He and Eddie Doris were always getting into fights with the Patillo boys. One day he came hopping onto the front porch where his mother was nursing the baby(Shirley) with blood trailing behind him and one of his toes hanging at an odd angle. Seems he had been in a fight with one of the Patillo boys who was threatening to cut his toe off with a hoe, so Bruce dared him to and he did, at least almost.
After moving to Fourth Street in East Tallassee, when his father became employed by the Cotton Mills, Bruce had another shock for his mother. He liked to go skinny-dipping with the kids in the creek near the house. One day he dove off the rocks into shallow water, hit a rock, and went floating downstream unconscious. Luckily he had a friend with him who could swim. When Bruce arrived home, blood was gushing from his head, his face and clothing covered in blood. His poor mother was almost overcome. Another time he got some spent bullet shells. He stuffed them with matchheads, and sitting on the back porch, laid a brick on the floor between his legs, placed the shells on the brick, then came down on the shells with a hammer, shooting himself in the leg.
Bruce attended schools in East Tallassee, Alabama, and stopped in the eleventh grade at North Charleston, South Carolina to serve 4 years in the United States Navy. After his discharge, he continued his education, graduating from Berkely High School on June 6, 1951. On that same night he eloped with Eunice (Tootsie)Baker Davis. He then entered the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina to obtain his B.S. Degree
Bruce retired fron South Carolina Electric & Gas and lived in Columbia, SC.
(SOURCE: The Holland And Johnson Lines And Related Families by Eddie Doris Holland Smith)
***********************************************************
BRUCE
By Roy Edward Holland
I have a son, who does things himself,
He doesn’t sit idle like a crock on a shelf
And wait for his father or some good elf
To make opportunities for him.
He didn’t mean to go through life half green
So he joined the navy at seventeen.
Now half the world he’s already seen,
Tho his purse is somewhat slim.
He earned his own fare through the Citadel.
His grades sometimes rose, sometimes fell,
But all in all he did very well,
Up near the head of his class.
He took engineering and got his B. S.
He intends to study more, rather than less;
He’ll get a Master’s Degree, I guess.
(A few more tests to pass.)
He was gone four years; I missed him lots,
I passed my time with the younger tots,
But seldom washed the pans and pots
To while the hours away.
When he goes again, he’ll be gone for years,
This time it will cost me sighs and tears,
For I’ll have already lost the younger dears,
They have gone away to stay.
However, I have the consolation:
I have a son to give my nation
Who can occupy a higher station
Than ever I could attain.
I shall follow hi life, and watch his rise
As he tries on the world for fit and size.
He’ll be a personage in my eyes,
And I’ll be happy again.
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