Border Patrol Inspector Elgar B. Holliday

Elgar B. Holliday

Border Patrol Inspector Elgar Holliday suffered a fatal heart attack following three straight days of rescue efforts in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, following Hurricane Beulah.

On the third day, he began to suffer chest pains and checked into a hospital where he was diagnosed with heart failure due to over-exertion. He remained in the hospital until his death in October.

Inspector Holliday had served with the United States Border Patrol for 12 years. He was survived by his wife. He was buried in the Pebbles Cemetery in Livingston, Polk County, Texas.