The Topeka Daily Capital Thursday June 1, 1961 Alva D. Holmes. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Mount Hope Cemetery for Alva D. Holmes, 79, of 920 N. Harrison, who died Monday at home after a short illness. He was born at Walnut Ridge, Ark., March 26, 1882, and was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad from 1925 until retirement about four years ago. Surviving are four nephews, Chester A. FLEMING of Oxnard, Calif.; John Fleming of Dakar, Africa; Kenneth Fleming of Houston, Tex., and William Fleming of Washington, D.C. Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.