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- Funeral services for Mrs. Clara [Elva] CLEMENT HOLMES,
69, former instructor
- at Milton college, were held 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1,
at the Seventh Day Baptist church, North Loup, Neb. Burial
was in the North Loup cemetery.
- Mrs. HOLMES died at North Loup Saturday evening, Aug.
28, after a period of
- failing health.
- Born Nov. 23, 1879, she was married to Walter S. HOLMES
in 1909 and graduated
- from Milton college in 1906. She received her master's
degree from the University of Nebraska in 1943[?] and did summer
school work at the University of Colorado.
- Mrs. HOLMES taught at the old Milton high school from
1906 to 1908, and in
- Nebraska schools from 1915 to 1933. She joined the staff
of Milton college to teach German in 1937. After serving as
matron of Goodrich hall, Milton college girls' dormitory for
12 years, she left that position this spring and returned to
North Loup.
- Mrs. HOLMES is survived by one brother, H. H. CLEMENT;
one sister, Mrs. W.
- G. JOHNSON; and several nieces and nephews including
Mrs. Theron OCHS, Milton. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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