Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Geraldine "Gerry" Edmonds Holmes April 9 2003
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(Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA., April 15, 2003)
Geraldine “Gerry” Edmonds Holmes, 55, of 515 Santa Clause Rd., Cedartown, 
passed away Wednesday, April 9, 2003. She was born Sept. 14, 1947 in Franklin, 
Tenn. to the late Mr. Joseph L. Edmonds and Clara Taylor Edmonds. She married 
Joseph Calloway “Cal” Holmes, Jr. on March 8, 1975. They had three children; 
America Cade Dempsey, born July 28, 1976 and a graduate of the University of 
Georgia; Mary Genevieve Holmes, born Dec. 15, 1978 and graduate of the 
University of the South and Joseph Calloway Holmes, III, a junior at the 
University of Georgia. She attended the University of the Americas in Mexico 
City in 1967. In 1969, she received her B.A. degree in English and French 
(majors) and Spanish and Sociology (minors) from the Siena College for Women. 
She received her Juris Doctor in 1973 from Memphis State University. Since 
1975, Mrs. Holmes had been a practicing lawyer in Cedartown, most recently 
serving as the District Attorney for the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit. In 1969 
Holmes worked for Southern Farm Publications in Nashville, Tenn. There she 
served as coordinating editor and was responsible for proofing and layout of 
three farm magazines. She worked for Star Newspapers in Millington, Tenn. in 
1970 and served as copy editor for two weekly suburban newspapers in the 
Memphis area. From 1972-1974 she worked as a law clerk and attorney for Dean 
Peery, an attorney in Memphis. Holmes worked for James I. Parker in Cedartown 
as a law clerk from 1974 until 1975. In 1974 she was admitted to all courts in 
the state of Tennessee and in 1975, she was admitted to all courts in the state 
of Georgia. She began working in 1975 for Mundy and Gammage, P.C. in Cedartown, 
serving as a personal injury attorney with emphasis on product liability and 
construction injuries. She left Mundy and Gammage, P.C. in 1998 and joined the 
Holmes Law Firm in Cedartown. There she began general trial practice that 
included criminal, domestic and family immigration laws. She also provided 
liability and personal injury services. She was sworn in July of 2002 as 
District Attorney for the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit. Additionally, she was 
admitted to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Courts 
Western District o f Tennessee, Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia. 
Holmes participated in many professional and community service organizations. 
In 1982, she served as the President of the Tallapoosa Circuit Bar Association. 
She also served as Chairman of the Seventh District Committee for the 
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Service Academy Selection Committee for 
U.S. Senator Wyche Fowler and First Chairman of the Polk County Council for the 
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Holmes also participated in the 
Cedartown Junior Service League and was a volunteer French teacher in the Polk 
Enrichment Program for gifted students at Cherokee Elementary School in 
Cedartown. She was appointed by the Superior Court Judges for establishment of 
the Polk County Child Abuse Protocol Committee, and also served as chairman. In 
2000 and 2001, she served as Judge of the ATLA Appellate Advocacy Competitions. 
Holmes was a member of St. Bernadette Catholic Church and also served as 
communicant and organist there for 27 years. She was also a teacher of advanced 
English for Hispanics and until her death, served on the Federal Bar Council 
for the Northern District of Georgia and Committee on Discipline, U.S. District 
Courts, Northern District of Georgia. She was preceded in death by her father, 
Joseph L. Edmonds. Surviving are her husband, Joseph Calloway “Cal” Holmes, Jr. 
of Cedartown; her mother, Clara Taylor Edmonds of Franklin, Tenn.; a son, 
Joseph Calloway Holmes, III of Cedartown; daughter and son-in-law America Cade 
and Christopher Gaines Dempsey of Rome and daughter Mary Genevieve Holmes of 
Cedartown. Mass services for Mrs. Holmes were held Friday, April 11, 2003 at 1 
p.m. in the First United Methodist Church with the Father Dan Stack 
officiating. Interment followed in the Greenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were 
John Burkhart, John Husser, Mike McRae, Jule Peek, Richard Sutton and Jerry 
Weaver. Honorary pallbearers were the assistant District Attorneys and staff of 
the Tallapoosa Judicial Court Circuit. Persons wishing to make a donation in 
her memory to support research for pancreatic cancer may do so by contacting 
PanCan at 877-272-6226 or by making an online donation at www.pancan.org The 
Lester C. Litesey Funeral home had charge of the arrangements. (Cedartown 
Standard, Cedartown, GA., April 15, 2003)

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