Extracted from The Monitor-Index and Democrat (Moberly, MO)
Tuesday, June 18, 1929

Attended Funeral of Father at Noel, Mo.

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Holmes, 614 Bertley street, and Miss Joyce Holmes, 604 South Clark street, have returned from Noel, Mo., where they were called by the sudden death of Dallas P. Holmes, father of Mr. Holmes and Miss Holmes.

Mr. Holmes fell dead at his home four miles east of Noel at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning of last week. The funeral was held Thursday from the home of friends of the family, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Ellis, at Noel, and burial was in the city cemetery.

Surviving him are his widow; one son, R. E. Holmes, Moberly; one daughter, Miss Joyce Holmes, Moberly; two grandchildren, Mary Elizabeth and Raymond Lee Holmes, of Moberly; two sisters, Mrs. Relza Davies and Mrs. Frances Staley, Kansas City; one half brother, Marshall Holmes, Picher, Okla., and one half sister, Mrs. Gertrude Davis, Joplin.