Obituary of Samuel Holmes Sr., LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
Clippings at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
Wednesday, November 21, 1990; page 11 A


Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.
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Samuel Holmes
Victoria Ray Smith

Joint funeral services for Samuel Holmes and Victoria Ray Smith were held at
1:00 p.m. Monday in Mars Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. H.Y. Franklin,
officiating.

Burial followed in Webster Cemetery near Good Pine under direction of Gayden
Funeral Home of Jena.

Holmes, 80, of Jena, died Friday, November 16, 1990 at St. Frances Cabrini
Hospital in Alexandria. Ms. Smith, 29, of Redwood City, Calif., died Nov. 10,
1990, in Crystal Springs Hospital in Redwood City.

Holmes' survivors include his wife, Mattie Holmes of Jena; four sons, Phillip
Holmes, Ernest Holmes, and Guy Holmes, all of Jena, and Samuel Holmes Jr. of
Pacific, Calif.; two daughters, Helen Smith of Jena and Billie Williams of
Gettysburg, Md.; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Ms. Smith's survivors include her mother, Helen Smith of Jena; two sisters,
Chyree Dean of Grambling and Carolyn Jackson of Jena; three sons, Marcel
Smith, Eddie Smith, and David Smith; one daughter, Arlana Smith; her father,
James Smith; maternal grandmother, Mattie Holmes of Jena; and paternal
grandmother, Addie Smith of Los Angeles, Calif.