This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F939EF60DC3F8B887BBA69DE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 [email protected] --------------F939EF60DC3F8B887BBA69DE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="hlmsms51.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="hlmsms51.txt" Obituaries: Mrs. J. W. Holmes, 1951, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. From: February 1, 1951 Winn Parish Enterprise Funeral Services For Mrs. Holmes Held Thursday Last rites for Mrs. J. W. Holmes, 72, who died in a local hospital Tuesday, January 30, 1951, were held in the Southern Funeral Home Chapel Thursday at 10 a.m. with the Rev. P. M. Carraway and Dr. W. L. Holcomb officiating. Burial was in the Winnfield Cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home. Acting as pallbearers were Eli Harrell, E. J. Buchanan, Troy Smith, J. C. Brooks, Ebb Machen, and James Thomas. Born March 10, 1878 in Grant Parish, Mrs. Holmes spent most of her life in Winn Parish. Her husband died many years ago, and she reared her four sons and five daughters an one grandson, Edgar Brown, in Winnfield. She was a member of the Montgomery Baptist Church and of the WBA. She suffered a heart attack two weeks prior to her death. Surviving are four sons, Joe B. Holmes, Winnfield, Luther E. of Ft. Worth, Texas, Oswald of Arlington, Texas, and Wendell of Pineville; five daughters, Mrs. B. T. Kelley and Mrs. Roy Payne, Bossier City, Mrs. Harley Hendricks of Benkalman, Neb., Mrs. Frances Wheeler of Winnfield, and Mrs. G. D. Babin of Jonesville; one sister, Mrs. R. G. Noble of West Monroe; one brother Clayton McGlothin of Rt. 1, Montgomery. Mrs. Holmes also leaves 17 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. --------------F939EF60DC3F8B887BBA69DE--