This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOLMES, BENTLEY, BOWEN, BURGWARDT Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12135 Message Board Post: PJ Obit 12/3/2001 - Ruth F. Holmes, 98, formerly of Frewsburg, Lake Worth, Fla. and Mayfield, Ohio, died Monday (Dec. 3, 2001) at the Carroll Woods Nursing Home in Michigan City, Ind. She was born Sept. 22, 1903, in Forestville, the daughter of Clark E. and Neva Bowen Bentley. A graduate of the Cherry Creek High School, she received her teaching certificate from the Buffalo Normal School and taught in the former Cherry Creek country school. She then graduated from Jamestown Business School. Along with her husband, she established the Edwin Holmes Plumbing & Heating Co. in Jamestown, where she served as secretary-treasurer for many years, retiring in 1966. She was an expert at identifying and using wild herbs for cooking and for medicines. Her organic gardens at the family farm on Frew Run Road in Frewsburg provided fresh frozen food in the earliest days of freezing for preservation. Her gardening diaries were a complete story of the weather for many years. She is survived b! y a son, Warren C. Holmes of Michigan City, who cared for her for the past five years; a daughter, Clarice H. Burgwardt of Orchard Park; 11 grandchildren: She was preceded in death by her husband, Edwin B. Holmes, whom she married June 20, 1924, and who died March 9, 1970; two sons: Gordon E. and Roger B. Holmes; and a brother, Ralph C. Bentley. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery, Frewsburg.