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Obit For Dr. Isham Holmes
Headline Dr. J. A. HOLMES DIES SUDDENLY FROM A FALL
Fall of a few feet from spring house crushes skull and results in instantaneous death
Text Dr. Isham Holmes while standing on the wall of a spring house at his farm near Powell last Monday in some way lost his balance and fell backwards to the ground, striking the back of his head on a rock which crushed the skull and resulted in immediate death. Some neighbors with him at the time of the fall, hurried to his side but no signs of consciousness were shown after the fall.

Dr. Holmes was born and reared in this community. As a boy he worked on his father's farm and attended the public school at Swindle College on Shoal Creek after which he taught in the public schools for two or three years. Then as a young man he went west, returning to this community after an absence of ten or twelve years and begun the study of medicine, graduating from the Barnes Medical College at St. Louis in 1898 after which he began the practice of his profession at Miami, Okla. Where he was kept busy and won the confidence and respect of all with whom he came in contact.

In 1914 he returned again to his old home and practiced medicine for two years with offices in Rocky Comfort. He then moved to Powell where he has bought a farm and continued the practice, developing the farm into a nice stock ranch.

Three brothers, Stephen, Willie and Dr. J. K. Holmes and three sisters, Mrs. Walter Duncan, Mrs. Balmah(b) Brown and Mrs. Sarah Holmes, all of this community survive him.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday by Rev. Red at the home of his sister Mrs. Balmah(b) Brown and interment made in the Rocky Comfort Cemetery.

Dr Holmes was a man of rare attainments, possessing a positive character, standing for all that he believed to be right under all circumstances and denouncing those things which he believed to be wrong, regardless of the source from which they may have come.

With his big loving, charitable heart ever pulsating in sympathy with the despondent, the afflicted and the distressed, he has gone fourth day after day and night after night giving out rays of sunlight to the despondent, relieving the pains of the afflicted and comforting the distressed.

Though Dr. Holmes has gone on to that country from whose bourne no traveler has ever yet returned, he will live on and on in the memory of those who knew him best. PARENTS
Newspaper or Funeral Home Wheaton Journal
Date Sept. 10, 1920
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Submitted by Don Warner - Deceased