Funeral services for Mrs. Louise Marie Holmes were held Monday, Aug. 2, at 3 p.m. at the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church with the Rev. Keith Hedstrom officiating. Song selections were by the congregation. Casket bearers were Carl Schaal, Rudy Schaal, Ted Schaal, Garvin Knodel, Carroll Schahrer and Virgil Eslinger. Interment was in Fairview Cemetery.

Louise Marie Holmes was the youngest child of Sam and Dorothea (Bauder) Schaal. She was born April 15, 1917, on her father’s homestead 12 miles north of Bethune. When she was about one week old, she was baptized in her parents’ home because she was ill, by the pastor, Gus Adolf of Immanuel’s Church, in the Lutheran faith and she remained a Lutheran all her life. When she was about 10 months old, she moved with her parents and family to the Sherman Yale place which her father bought in 1914. At this place the Yale post office was located and near there was the Yale school were she attended school and received her eight grade diploma.

In June of 1933 she was confirmed in Immanuel’s Lutheran Church by the Rev. H. L. Woelber who was the pastor at the time. In September of 1935 she went to Golden were she made her home with her aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Maas and worked in the Coors porcelain factory. In Golden she met and married Wesley C. Holmes Dec. 7 1935. They lived in Golden for about six years before moving to Milliken. Leaving there they moved to Portland, Ore., where they both worked in the shipyards during World War II. In the fall of 1945 they moved to Burlington. Her husband was manager at Burlington Building and Supply Co. and she worked at W. B. Drugs and Safeway.

Her health failed about 10 years ago and she died July 30, 1976. She is survived by her husband; one daughter and son-in-law, Evelyn and Phillip Waitman and their Six children, Bruce Boyd, Brian, Burl, Shirley Ann and Marilyn June, of Hotchkiss; on son and daughter-in-law, William and Nancy Kay; sisters, Mrs. Helen C. Knodel and Mrs. Dorothea Schlichenmayer, and her brothers Jake, John and Sam Schaal, all of Burlington and George H. Schaal of Denver. She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers.