Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....HOLMES, Florence Annette December 17 1918
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Las Vegas Age - 12/21/1918


LAS VEGAS AGE

12/21/1918



DIED



HOLMES - In this city, at 11 p.m. Tuesday, December 17, 1918, Florence

Annette HOLMES, aged 22 years, seven months and eleven days, of influenza

pneumonia.

    The deceased was a sister of Helen HOLMES [illegible]....and was herself

engaged in picture work until recently.  She was one of a family of ten

children, the father and eight of whom were victims before her of

tuberculosis.  She had recently felt the beginning of lung trouble, and when

the motion picutre industry of Los Angeles was brought nearly to a

standstill by the influenza epidemic, she decided to try the effect of the

dry climate of Las Vegas.  She had an interest in a ranch near Milford,

Utah, for which she was paying in installments, and being of an independent

character, she secured a position at the railway eating house in order to be

able to meet her share of the payments.

    Here she became ill with influenza about 12 days before her death, and

frail as she was, death quickly claimed her when pneumonia developed.  Her

sister Helen was wired of her illness, but the messages failed of prompt

delivery and Helen did not reach here until Wednesday morning after

Florence's death.  She returned to Los Angeles with the remains, leaving

here Thursday morning.

    Helen HOLMES, it will be remembered, spent portions of several winters

in Las Vegas, with her husband John P. MC GOWAN, producing "The Girl and the

Game," and othe feature pictures.  They have many friends here who express

deep sympathy in this very sad bereavement.





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