Columbus Junction:
Mrs. John W. Holmes received word this week that her husband, Lt. John W. Holmes, had met and spent an evening with his brother, Ensign Pressley E. Holmes, somewhere in England.
Source: Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune, July 22, 1944
Pressley Eugene Holmes was born June 5, 1912 to Thomas J. and Ida M. Goehring Holmes. He died Apr. 23, 1990 and is buried in Conejo Mountain Memorial Park, Camarillo, CA.
Ens. Holmes served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Saratoga (CV-3), USS Yorktown (CV-5), and LST-57.
Source: ancestry.com
