Ellis Charles Holdren Jr

steve was a good decent man. he was a much wanted cpa at so. lake tahoe. he latter became the citys treasurer in which he was reellected again. in the early 8os we ran into each by chance. he hired me to install a new window opening in his office so he could see the lake better (his office was right on the lake) after the hand shake to get started we kept staring at each. he said do i know you from some place else? i replied not unless you were from compton he replied no im from paramont. i said  i spent my senior year there and he instantly knew who i was. life is a chance and what you make of it steve made made the best of it. i will always remember him as a smart caring full of life person. he did it right.your friend chuck holdren

Mark Overstreet

Steve was a very good friend of mine. He befriended me in 10th grade.

We were on the cross-country and track teams in 11th and 12th grades. We spent many hours together running together, day after day. He was always encouraging me.  Steve went out for sports at Paramount Jr. High in 9th grade, then was the quarterback on the "B" football team in 10th grade. He ran the 880 yard sprint in most of our races in high school and was the top middle distance runner (along with Tom Fordum). His younger brother, Walter, was also on the cross-country team with in during our senior year.

He lent me his car in 11th grade so I could take Pat P. to the drive-in. He showed me how to work a stick shift in the Tastee-Freeze parking lot an hour before I picked her up!  I used to stay over at his house, knocking on his door at 2:00AM when my family was arguing.  We talked many nights away with philosophy and what we wanted to do in the future. He and Randy Roberts came over to my house during the Summer of "67" and asked if I wanted to work with them at the Tastee-Freeze. We had a fun and crazy time "working" there. His sister, Crystal worked there with us in 1969. What a lot of great memories. Like the time Don Bankson and I drank Steve's New Year's champaign that he put in the refer. I was so drunk I wound up sleeping on the grill (It was turned off), woke up at 6AM!  We took several road trips during and after high school. He loved the outdoors, and we took his V.W. bug up to the Redwoods, and Mount Lassin. We went to San Francisco and stopped at Haight and Ashbury, during the hight of the "Hippy Days", that was cool!

Steve gave me good advice and looked out for my well being as we experienced the many ordeals and temptations that confronted teenagers. He helped me pick out a tux for the Prom, something I never did before. We went to Compton College together where he started to study accounting and computer programing. His older brother, Nelson, was on the football team and we hung around him during our first year in college. "We thought we were big men on campus!" I went into the Navy about the time he got married. I'd visit him when I was on leave. He was a very smart guy and I admired him for his knowledge and fortitude to succeed. I used to hitch-hike up to San Jose and stay with him in the 1970's. He showed me how it was O.K. to give a guy a hug, whenever I'd leave on the road again. Now I'm a "hugger."  He moved to South Lake Tahoe and remarried, he had two children. He took Rosa and our children boating on the lake as we visited him every few years.  He was voted the city's treasurer for many years. He was a volunteer on the mountain ski patrol. We kept in touch the last few years, hoping that he would "beat" his illness.

It's not only the big events but the little things in life that I remember about my friend Steve. After he told me about his illness, I let him know that he was a valuable person in my life. He was a positve influence in my life.

I charish the times we had together.  God Bless Steve and all those who he loved and who loved him.