Holliday

Bertha Eizetta "Sue" Holliday, 75, of Lawsonham Road, Rimer-sburg, died at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Clar-view Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, Sligo, after a brief illness.

Born in Madison Township, Clarion County, June 9, 1931, she was a daughter of Thomas T. Mortimer, who died in 1949, and Margaret Hazel Montgomery Mortimer, who died in 1981. Her stepfather, Edwin L. Mortimer, died in 1991.

She and her husband lived in the Sharon area from 1948 until returning to Rimersburg in 1994.

Mrs. Holliday attended the Lawsonham United Methodist Church and was a former member of the Nazarene Church of Sharpsville.

She had attended the Maple Grove School and had worked at the Mercer County Home and at Nugent's Convalescent Home in Hermitage.

She also cared for and raised four children other than her own.

Surviving are her husband, Donald Deroy Holliday, whom she married July 4, 1947, at the Michael Kerr home on Kissinger Road near Rimersburg; three sons, Thomas Kenneth Holliday and his wife, Linda, of Greenville, Gale Deroy Holliday and his wife, Robin, of New Castle and Allen Holliday of Rimersburg; a daughter, Barbara Renee Hedglin of Hermitage; eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

She also is survived by two brothers, Gale Mortimer and his wife, Nellie, of West Middlesex and Richard Allen Mortimer and his wife, Linda, of Mercer; three sister, Patricia Stitt and her husband, Gary, of West Sunbury and Gladys Mildred Conner and Deborah Kay Heeter and her husband, Dirk, all of Rimersburg; and a number of nieces and nephews.

<B>HOLLIDAY </B>— Friends of Bertha Eizetta "Sue" Holliday, who died Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006, will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the <B>Richard D. Hillis Funeral Home</B>, 758 Main St., Rimersburg. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home with the Rev. Brock Beveridge, pastor of the Lawsonham United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will follow at the Hillcrest Memorial Park, Hermitage.