Holmes, Loren 1882-1942

HOLMES, TRAGER

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 5/5/2011 at 19:01:18

Holmes, Loren –
Funeral services were held at the Lenox Church of Christ Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 for Loren Holmes, 60, who died in the Greater Community in Creston Sunday, August 2 [1942], where he had been taken last week for observation and treatment. Rev. E. F. Hagee conducted the services and burial was made at Bedford.

Mr. Holmes was born April 5, 1882, near Lynnville, Iowa, and in his youth moved with his parents to New Sharon, Iowa where he grew to manhood.
He was united in marriage to Josephine Trager on Dec. 7, 1905 and they moved to Taylor County where he lived until his death. Eight children were born. Two preceded him in death, namely Opal Pauline, who died at the age of two and Mrs. Doris Overman, who died Sept. 23, 1939.
Those surviving his death are his wife, four daughters, Gladys Chitty of Sharpsburg, Helen Miller of Grant City, Mo., Margaret Norris of Lenox and Genevieve Pennington of Omaha, Nebr.; two sons, Cecil of Stockton, Calif. and Ivan of Blockton. Also ten grandchildren; two brothers, Edward Holmes of Regina, Canada and William Holmes of Pendelton, Oregon, and three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Williams of New Sharon, Mrs. Ed Snapp of Helix, Oregon, and Mrs. J. P. Longfellow of Bedford and many other relatives and friends.
In 1922 Mr. Holmes became of a member of the Church of Christ in Blockton.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa, August 6, 1942