The highest honor that the Holiday Park Volunteer Fire Department can bestow on a member is the status of “Life Member”. To achieve this level of membership sets that member in a Elite class in the history of the department after many years of committed service to the department.

To achieve Life Membership Status:
– The member must be in either the Active or Company member grouping
– Must have been a member of the fire department or the former Ladies Auxiliary or Ambulance Service – He/she must have completed 60 voting quarters (15 years) of service as an Adult*
– He/she must be in good standing (no suspension or leave of absence)
– Note: Time as a Junior Firefighter/Member does not count*

Life Members are inducted into their new status at the Annual Banquet in January of the following year of obtaining status. He/she receives a platinum Life Member Badge, a Gold Life Member Engraved Card, and going forward their quarterly and annual points requirements drop to a lower level.

Roster of Life Members

  • Earl Gage, 1978
  • Frank Ley, 1978
  • John Truxal, 1978
  • Bill Kern, 1978
  • Floyd Shaeffer, 1978
  • Dick McKee, 1980
  • Ed Murdy, 1981
  • Hugh Sipe, 1983
  • Bernie Rixner, 1983
  • Tim Murtha, 1984
  • Ed Kenna, 1985
  • Tom Inserra, 1985
  • Bob Iseman, 1985
  • Bill Weber, 1985
  • Richard Rosey, 1988
  • Joseph Schwan, 1990
  • Robert Burkhouse, 1991
  • Carl Lish, 1991
  • Brian Gray, 1991
  • Jim Sims, 1991
  • Gary Sims, 1992
  • JoAnn Zanotelli, 1992
  • Dot Weber, 1992
  • Curt Troger, 1993
  • Patricia Sipe, 1993
  • Charles Bell, 1996
  • William Sanford, 1998
  • William Hilderhoff, 1998
  • Richard Borgoyne, 2000
  • Richard Susalla, 2002
  • Charles Beveridge, 2006
  • Matthew Vagnier, 2007
  • Monte Myers, 2008
  • Joseph Parks, 2010
  • Bob Webb, 2011
  • Jimmy Reynolds, 2015
  • Eric Leksell, 2017
  • John Mellor, 2017
  • Lori Shaulis, 2017
  • Linda Vagnier, 2017
  • ^Patrick Sipe, 2018
  • Mike Franitti, 2020
  • Ann Ratner, 2022
  • Joette Franitti, 2023

(^ = Awarded Posthumously)