Obituary of Bertha Holmes Davis ~ 2004
Source: The Goldsboro News-Argus Dec 6 2004
MOUNT OLIVE -- Bertha Holmes Davis, 85, died Saturday.
The funeral will be held tonight at 7 in the chapel of Tyndall Funeral
Home. The Rev. Frank Harrison will officiate.
Burial will be on Tuesday morning at 11 at Wayne Memorial Park.
She was the daughter of the late Alva "Abb" Holmes and Mary Owens Holmes
and was the widow of Fonzy Davis.
She is survived by one daughter, Helen D. Williamson, and her husband,
Jimmy, of Mount Olive; two brothers, Linwood Homes of Mount Olive and
Edward Holmes of Goldsboro; four sisters, Eva Brock, Hadie Brock and
Dorothy Brock of Mount Olive and Lucille Winders of Rocky Mount; sisters-
in-law, Clara Belle Holmes and Jean Holmes of Mount Olive; special niece,
Leia Womack, and her husband, Lloyd, of Maryland; five grandchildren; 10
great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Betty Grey Holloman, and three
brothers, James Holmes, Durwood Holmes and Alva Holmes Jr.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home following the service
tonight, and other times at the home of Helen and Jimmy Williamson, 184
Jim Best Road, Mount Olive.
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