HOLMES, Allison Jay "A. J." 1888-1967

HOLMES, ROGERS, SCHATZ, BENTZ, HALL

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 9/20/2014 at 23:02:58

Allison Jay Holmes

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Friday, August 4, 1967, Waterloo, Iowa]

Services for A. J. (Speck) Holmes, 78, of 712 W. 6th St. will be I p.m. Monday at Nottger-Schoof Funeral Home with the Rev. Doyle Hansen officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery [Cedar Falls]. Friends may call aft er 7 p.m. Friday. He died Thursday morning of a heart attack.

Mr. Holmes was born Oct. 17, 1888, in Freeport, Ill., the son of John C. and Franceilia Rogers Holmes. He married Elesa C. Schatz Sept. 15, 1923, in the Little Brown Church at Nashua.

He was a member of Bethany Shrine No. 9; past Master of Lodge 65, AF and AM, Cedar Falls Chapter of Eastern Star. He came to Cedar Falls in 1925. A veteran or World War I, he was an employe of Northwestern Bell for 40 years until retirement in 1953. He was a member of Pioneer Assn. of the Bell Telephone Co.

Survivors include his widow; two daughters: Lola at home and Mrs. Larue (June) Bentz of Clinton; two brothers, Charles of Mt. Pleasant and Judd of Independence; a sister, Mrs. Ruthe Hall of Independence; and three grandchildren.

He was preceded by parents and-four brothers.

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Siblings
Arton Clarence Holmes 1887 - 1967
Allison Jay Holmes 1888 - 1967
Hiram Roy Holmes 1891 - 1935
Willis Ray Holmes 1891 - 1941
Charles E Holmes 1893 - 1967
Ralph O Holmes 1895 - 1918
Ruth Holmes Hall 1899 - 1969
Judson Ross Holmes 1904 - 1975

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