Edith Ilona Holland

Edith Ilona Holland, a resident of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was born May 21, 1936 in Hamburg, Germany, a daughter of Franz and Agnes (Klingburg) Sabotawski. She departed this life Thursday, February 26, 2015 in her home in Eureka Springs, at the age of 78 years. Edith was a survivor of World War II and migrated in November 1954 to the United States. She became a United States citizen in 1957. Edith worked fourteen years for the Arkansas State Health Department in Little Rock, Arkansas as an x-ray technician and the last four years as supervisor of radiology. She has lived in Eureka Springs for the past twenty years and loved that town. On December 9, 1979, Edith was united in marriage with James William Holland who survives her of the home. She is also survived by two daughters, Ramona and husband Richard Meeks and Monika and husband Larry Troillett all of Little Rock, Ark.; five grandchildren, Aaron Meeks and wife Maria of Richmond, Va., Lindsey (Meeks) and husband Brad Booth of Austin, Texas, Adam Meeks of Little Rock, Ark., Peyton Troillett of Fayetteville, Ark., and Marian Troillett of Little Rock, Ark.; one great-grandson, Braden Robert Booth of Austin, Texas; one sister, Helga Federiuk of Turtle Lake, Wis.; and a host of other friends, family, and loved ones. Edith was preceded in death by her parents, Franz and Agnes Sabotawski and one brother, Peter Klingburg. Visitation will be held from 5 until 7 p.m. Sunday, March 01, 2015 at Nelson's Chapel of the Springs in Eureka Springs. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Monday, March 02, 2015 at Nelson's Chapel of the Springs with Pastor John Turner officiating. Interment will follow the service in the Eureka Springs Cemetery under the direction of Nelson Funeral Service. Memorial donations may be made to St. Jude's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105. Online condolences may be sent to the family at nelsonfuneral.com. © Nelson Funeral Service, Inc. 2015.