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Services Held Friday For Earl W. Holmes

The Rev. Earl Wayne Holmes, whose 15 years as pastor of the Farmville Ra~tist church won the re-spect and love of local persons of all denomina-tions, died in the Univer-sity Nursing Home in Greenville last Wednesday night following declining health of several years. Mr. Holmes, 84, had made his home at 1102 Anderson Street, Wilson, for several years.

Funeral services were conducted at 11 o'clock Friday from the First Bap-tist church in Farmville by the Rev. Ronnie Davis and the Rev. William R. Bu11-

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sey of Wilson. Interment followed in Forrest Hill cemetery in Farmville.

Mr. Holmes, a native of Montgomery, Ala., was retired. He had served churches in Alabama for 10 years, Mullins, S.C., for 15 years, farmville for 15 years and had served as in-terim pastor in Washing;-ton, Grace Baptist church in Wilson and Webb's Chapel church. He had served for eight years as Assistant Chaplain of Eas-tern N .C. Sanitorium in Wilson. He was a former member of the Board of Trustees of Limestone Col-lege in Gaffney, S.C. He . served in the Volunteer 'Crisis Center in Wilson. Mr. Holmes had served on the General Board of the N.C. 4 Baptist convention and had served as modera-tor of the old Roanoke As- · sociation.

Mr. Holmes was a graduate of Howard Col-lege in Birmingham, Ala., and of the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louis-ville, Ky. He was a veteran of World War I, serving as chaplain in the U.S. Army, and was a Mason.

He is survived by two daughters: Mrs. Frank N. Crews, Jr., of South Bos-ton, Va., and Mrs. Bernice B. Turnage of Farmville· . ' one sister, Mrs. W. B. Cal-houn of Montgomery, Ala.; three brothers, Al-bert Holmes of Montgom-ery, Ala., Leon Holmes of Macon, Ga., and Walter Holmes of Mobile, Ala.; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Pallbearers were Sam Wells, Nick Wilson Harris Arthur Joyner, Jr., Tolli~ Epps, C. C. Moss and the Rev. Bob Miller.

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Rev. Holmes Is Guest Minister

The Rev. Earl W. Holmes of Wilson will be the guest p:eacher for 11 a .m. worship services Sunday at First Ba lat Cturch, the pastor, the R. Bussey, has announced.

An Alabama native, the Rev. 1 Mr. Holmes was ordained to the

ministry in 1916. He holds both A. B. and M. A. degrees from Samford University, Bir-mingham, Ala. and the Th.M. degree from Southern Baptist

1 Seminary in Louisville, Ky. He was a chaplain in the

United States Army in World War I. He has pastored churches in Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina.

His service includes a seven-year stint as associate chaplain at the Eastern North carolina Hospital, and, in retirement, he has served as an interim pastor in 10 churches in some six years.

The public is invited to attend. 11 llt: In

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Holmes Preach In Baptist Church Sunday Morning

The Rev. E. W. Holmes will preach at 11 o'clock Sunclay I morning in the Farmville {.irst Baptist cburcb He was pastor

1 of the church from 1946 to 1960 I and he and Mrs. Holmes are now 1

1 residing in Wilson, where he serves as chaplain, on a part-time I basis, at the Eastern N. C. San-itorium.

The Rev. Marion n. Lark, pas-tor, and his family are spending I · several days in South Carolina I with relatives prior to being in i study conferences at Ridgecrest, 1 Aug. 22-27. En.field f'rvgAa» -------Farmville Enterprise

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