Fighting War with Faith

At a time when most people his age are thinking about retirement, Dr. Edward Horvath’s life took an unexpected turn when he decided to return to military service.

As a young man, he served stateside in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam era before settling down as a physician. He has been married to Joy for 50 years. They are the parents of three — two sons who also served in the Navy and a daughter who became a physician.

A parishioner at St. Raphael in Bay Village, he had been medical director for two major companies and later a physician at the Cleveland Clinic and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 

After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he felt a sense of responsibility — a call to do something more.

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