HOLMES, Mrs. Lottie J.

COULTER, OLMSTEAD, ROBINSON, HOLMES

Posted By: Lois Shaul-volunteer (email)
Date: 3/2/2014 at 14:55:00

The Malvern Leader
July 28, 1932

"Death Takes Mrs. Louis Holmes at Haxtun, Colo."

Mrs. Louis L. Holmes died Sunday at the family home three miles northeast of Haxtun, following and illness of several months.

Funeral services for Mrs. Holmes will be held from the Methodist church in Haxtun Thursday afternoon. The Rev. Olmstead, pastor of the Christian church at Holyoke, will preach the funeral service and will be assisted in the service by the Rev. J.T. Coulter, pastor of the Haxtun Methodist church.

Following is Mrs. Holmes obituary:
"Lottie Jewel, youngest daughter and third child of Edward E. and Sarah M. Robinson, was born on Good Friday, April 19, 1889, near Malvern, in Mills county, Iowa. In that community she spent the early years of her life until 1907 when the family moved to Haxtun. The summer of that year was spent at Elm Creek, Nebr., the home of her oldest sister. Here she met Louis L. Holmes, whose acquaintance budded into romance and they married on June 17, 1914.

She and her husband removed at once to Sloan, Iowa, taking charge of the pastorate of the Christian church. Later they served in the same capacity at Plainville, Everest, and Donner Springs in Kansas and at Sidney, Nebr.

In 1924 she and her family came to the farm northeast of Haxtun until she was called higher at 12:30 a.m., July 5, 1932, at the age of forty three years, two months, and sixteen days.

"First of all Mrs. Holmes was a Christian, having a simple faith in God and Jesus Christ. Her greatest sorrow was that she could not do more for Him. Her first labors were in the Methodist church, with which she united when quite young. After her marriage she entered zealously into and continued her service in the Methodist church. Her personality, tact, kindness, and sympathy won for her hosts of friends wherever she went, her light shone brightest, however, in her home. Here she had and held the love and confidence of her dearest ones and so showed them the better way that they in the sad hour of bereavement have not lost faith in the goodness of God. Though dead yet she lives, though gone she is ever present in the home circle. Truly her worth was far beyond rubies.

"She leaves in her sorrow her husband, Louis L. Holmes, her son, Burton, and two daughters, Mildred and Marion, a sister, Bertha M. Robinson and other relatives and friends.