Vermilion County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Holmes, Lucy Tennessee nee Ward - January 14, 1930
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source: Abbeville Meridional, Abbeville, Louisiana,
Saturday, January 25, 1930, vol. 80, no. 4

IN MEMORY OF MRS. J. R. HOLMES

On January Fourteenth Nineteen Hundred Thirty, God in His infinite wisdom, 
deemed it necessary to remove from our midst our beloved, Mrs. Holmes. She 
was seventy-one years of age and for that length of time had walked and 
talked with our Lord here on earth; now, He has called her to be with Him in 
that place not made with hands.

At 3:30 o'clock the following day loving hands bore her body to the church 
of her choice (M. E. Church South), where the funeral services were 
conducted by the pastor in charge, Rev. H. N. Harrison, assisted by Rev. J. 
R. Roy, of the Rayne Methodist Church. From thence they bore her to her 
final resting place, Graceland Cemetery and left her under a bank of flowers 
- tokens of loving remembrance of her many friends.

Mrs. Holmes, whose maiden name was Lucy Tennessee Ward, was the daughter of 
Thomas Ward and Rebecca Hale of Lafayette County, Mississippi. She was 
married to James Robert Holmes, Dec. 29, 1880, at Oxford, Miss. Six children 
were born to their union, two of whom died in infancy, four remain to mourn 
her loss, - Daisy, Mrs. G. J. Griffin, of Abbeville, Fadra, Mrs. E. P. 
Wilson of Pennsylvania, Miss Beulah, of New Orleans, Roberta, Mrs. R. W. 
Alexander, of Abbeville. Besides her husband and these four daughters, Mrs. 
Holmes leaves four devoted grandchildren: George Griffen, Jr., Embry Pry 
Wilson, George Griffin Alexander and Robert Alexander. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes 
moved to Louisiana in 1885 and having chosen Abbeville vicinity for their 
home have been identified with the business and social life of the community 
ever since.

The deceased was the devoted wife, an ideal mother to her own children, a 
real mother to her grandchildren, a true friend to all with whom she came in 
contact, and a source of inspiration, hope, and trustful faith to all 
believers in Christianity.

We shall miss her in her place in church, we shall miss her smile of 
greeting, her voice of encouragement, her nod of approval, her advice in 
trouble, her consolation in sorrow, and, yet we are comforted for we know 
she is not dead, but lives in that blissful world to which we are hastening; 
though lost to mortal sight, she may still be with us in spiritual 
existence. "Are they not all ministering spirits?", saith the apostle.

God grant we may so live that when our summons come we may leave behind us 
the example of Jesus teachings that were exemplified in her life. - Her 
Friends.


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