Caswell Holloway Jr., 86, builder

Caswell F. Holloway Jr., 86, a former builder of South Jersey condominiums, died of complications from pneumonia Saturday, Sept. 18, at his home in Jupiter, Fla., where he had lived since the mid-1980s.

For decades before, he lived in Haverford and Villanova.

Born in Chester, Mr. Holloway graduated from St. James High School there in 1941, earned a football scholarship to Villanova University, and transferred to the Merchant Marine Academy, from which he earned a degree in engineering in 1944.

Before and after graduation - from 1943 to 1945 - he served on the freighter Medina in the North Atlantic.

While working briefly for a firm in New Orleans, "he was going to be shipping out, and my mom became pregnant," said a son, Caswell III. So the naval career ended.

In late 1945, Mr. Holloway joined his father's firm, Wall & Holloway, a manufacturer's representative for plumbing and other products, at 22d and Chestnut Streets.

In the 1950s, Mr. Holloway became vice president of the company's successor, the Holloway Corp. He became chief executive officer in 1977. As head of that company's successor, Holloway Holding Co., he diversified the firm into electronic security and real estate development across the nation.

In the Philadelphia region, Mr. Holloway's firm built, among others, Gardens Plaza and Brighton Place Condominiums in Ocean City, N.J., and Mystic Shores, a retirement community in Little Egg Harbor, N.J.

Mr. Holloway was chairman of the national membership council of the Associated General Contractors of America from 1988 to 1994, his son said. He was also director of the Philadelphia unit of the General Building Contractors Association in the 1990s.

A Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Mr. Holloway was a trustee of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, which awarded him an honorary degree in humane letters in 2002.

He was also a trustee of Mount St. Mary's University and Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md.

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia gave him its Distinguished Catholic School Graduate Award in the early 2000s.

In addition to his son Caswell III, Mr. Holloway is survived by wife Marie; sons Steven, T. Brian, B. Scott, Gary, and Todd; daughters Karen Perry and Marie Dudley; a sister; 26 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Mr. Holloway was predeceased by sons John and Thomas and daughter Jeanne O'Neill.

A visitation was set for 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 24, at St. Mary Magdalen Church, 2400 N. Providence Rd., Upper Providence, where a Funeral Mass will follow. Burial is to be in SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Marple Township.