Percy Oliver Holmes 1892-1964

HOLMES

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/13/2011 at 23:29:00

Percy Holmes Dies
Funeral services for Percy O. Holmes, formerly an Estherville resident for many years, are to be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Estherville Church of the Nazarene, the Rev. Kathryn Loutzenhiser to officiate. Burial will be East Side cemetery. Mr. Holmes died Friday [January 24, 1964] at the Johnson Nursing Home, Fort Dodge, where he had been a patient since June. His death was attributed to cancer. Mr. Holmes, while living in this area, farmed for a time, was employed by the railroad and did truck gardening. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, January 25, 1964)