Ouachita-Grant County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....HOLMES, ALTON PRICE III April 25, 2009
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News Star World - April 27, 2009
ALTON PRICE HOLMES, III
Glenwood Funeral Home, Tallulah, LA

Funeral services for Mr. Alton Price Holmes, III, 36, of Tallulah, LA will be 
held at 11:00 AM Monday, April 27, 2009 at First Baptist Church in Tallulah 
with Rev. John Rushing officiating. Interment will follow at Silver Cross 
Cemetery under the direction of Glenwood Funeral Home, Tallulah, LA.

Alton was born April 14, 1973. He passed away on April 25, 2009, at home with 
his loving family by his side after a long battle with cancer.

Alton grew up in Tallulah, LA and graduated from Tallulah Academy. He attended 
Mississippi State University and graduated from the University of Louisiana at 
Monroe with a BS degree in agricultural business. He was employed in farm 
chemical sales at Madison Farm Supply and then at United Agricultural 
Products. He later turned to farming full-time as owner of APH Farms in 
Madison Parish.

Alton was an avid sportsman who made many hunting trips throughout the United 
States, Argentina and Canada. His other favorite pastimes included trail 
riding, fishing and spending time with his family at Lake Bruin. He was active 
in many civic, community and church activities and will be missed by a host of 
friends who will remember him for his generosity to them and his courage 
throughout his battle with illness.

He was preceded in death by his father, Alton Price Holmes, Jr. of Tallulah; 
paternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Alton Price Holmes, Sr. of Winona, MS, and 
maternal grandfather Robert Benton Alsup of Trumann, AR.

He is survived by his wife Carrie Miller Holmes; two daughters Sidnee Beth and 
Laurel Ann Holmes and one son Clayton Holmes of Tallulah; his mother Judy A. 
Holmes of Flower Mound, TX; a sister Jennifer Holmes Williams and husband 
Dean; two nephews John Benton and Price and one niece Eve of Argyle, TX; a 
grandmother Mrs. Robert Benton Alsup of Trumann, AR.

Pallbearers will be Rodney Butts, David Dennis, Darryl Ellerbee, Michael 
Hanlon, Clark Hill, Jonathan Hopkins and Mac Marsh.

Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Charles Brown, Charles Grady and Chip 
Sullivan.

Visitation was from 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM Sunday, April 26, 2009, at the First 
Baptist Church, Tallulah.

The family requests memorials be sent to University of Texas, MD Anderson 
Cancer Center, P. O. Box 4486, Houston, TX 77210-4486; Silver Cross Cemetery, 
Tallulah, LA, First Baptist Church, Tallulah, LA or Church of Tallulah, 
Tallulah, LA. 


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