THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, October 22, 1953

David Lyle Holland, 37, died suddenly from a heart attack at his home, St. Johns Park, about six o'clock Sunday morning.

Mr. Holland, who was a life-long resident of Flagler County, was in the farming and cattle business. He was a veteran of World War II and served with the Thirty-first Division in the Pacific theatre. He participated in three invasions before he was wounded. He was awarded the Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge and several oak leaf clusters. He was a member of the Bunnell Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Effie Holland; three children, Bonnie, Donald and William; his mother, Mrs. Maude Holland, all of Bunnell; four sisters, Mrs. Wilda Cobb and Mrs. Marjorie Robertson of Bunnell; Mrs. Lota Nevin and Mrs. Oveida Giebert, Jacksonville; two brothers, Z. Dean Holland and Z. G. Holland, Jr., both of Bunnell.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon from the Bunnell Methodist Church with the pastor, Rev. L. E. Watkins, officiating. Burial was in the Espanola Cemetery with Garcia Funeral Home of St. Augustine in charge.

Pallbearers were Arden Kinney, Curtis Deen, Martin Harding, Steve Sparkman, Bill Burnsed and John Buckles.

 

NOTE: Zach Holland was presented the Cross of Military Service from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, General Joseph Eggleson Chapter on 20 Apr 1969, posthumously for his brother, David Lyle Holland.

The Crosses of Military Service, the outgrowth of the Cross of Honor awarded to Confederate Veterans, include WW I Cross of Military Service; Spanish-American; Philippine Insurrection; WW II; Korea and Vietnam.

The decorations have been established as a testimonial to the patriotic devotion of certain Confederate Veterans and their descendants, are not given for any one special act of bravery, but to officers and privates alike for endurance.