Services will be at 11 a.m. at Tulsa Bible Church, 5838 S. Sheridan Road, followed by burial at Memorial Park Cemetery, 5115 S. Memorial Drive.

Holliday was killed when the vehicle he was in struck a roadside bomb during combat operations at Hawr Rajab, south of Baghdad.

Moore Funeral Home officials said the Army notified them that Holliday, who had been a private first class, was promoted posthumously to corporal.

Two other soldiers in the vehicle with him were also killed. The Department of Defense identified them as Sgt. Dustin S. Wakeman, 25, of Fort Worth and Cpl. Jason K. Lafleur, 28, of Ignacio, Colo.

All three were assigned to the 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division at Fort Richardson, Alaska.

They were among five soldiers from Fort Richardson to die in one week during operations in Iraq.

The other two -- Sgt. Bradley W. Marshall, 37, of Little Rock and Spc. Daniel F. Reyes, 24, of San Diego -- were killed July 31 from enemy indirect fire at Tunis, a Baghdad neighborhood.

They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division.

According to Holliday's family, he had always wanted to be in the military,

"That was always his desire -- to go into the military and serve," said his mother, Kelly Holliday.

"When 9/11 happened, he was 15, and he said, 'If I were old enough to serve, I would,' " his mother recalled.

Holliday was home-schooled and graduated through the Christian Home Education Fellowship of Oklahoma in 2004.

He was the oldest of eight children -- seven boys and one girl.

Manny Gamallo 581-8386
manny.gamallo@tulsaworld.com