Back Story

Melodie Holman

Owner, Pizza Katerina

If it weren't for a trip to the chiropractor and a loaf of bread, Melodie Holman would not be the happy owner of Pizza Katerina, in Oshtemo Township.

The day Paul and Kathleen Harris opened the restaurant at 635 N. Ninth St. in 2019, Holman was at a chiropractic appointment in a neighboring suite at the Sunset Plaza shopping center.

“After my appointment, I bought a slice of pizza and a loaf of bread,” Holman recalls. When Holman was growing up, her mom made everything from scratch, she says, “so when I ate that bread … oh my … it tasted like hers and it flooded

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