Esther Holmes

Dunn, NC:  Mrs. Esther McLamb Holmes, age 87, died Sunday at Rex Healthcare in Raleigh.  Funeral services will be 11:00AM Wednesday at Prospect Free Will Baptist Church.  Rev. Billy Keith and Rev. Jerome Pope will officiate.  Burial will follow in Harnett Devotional Gardens. Mrs. Holmes was born April 25, 1928 in Harnett County to the late Lester and Genieves Temple McLamb.  She was also preceded in death by her husband, Horace "Mack" McCellan Holmes.  Mrs. Holmes was a waitress at Campbell University and was a member of Prospect Free Will Baptist Church. She is survived by daughters & sons-in-law, Renee & Ronnie Faircloth of Manassas, VA; Otivia & Bruce Kenemer of Rocky Face, GA, and Paulette & Phillip Strickland of Dunn; sisters, Doris Tart of Coats and Dorothy Edgerton of Savannah, GA; brother, Joe McLamb of Benson; grandchildren; Wendy Wells, Amy Faircloth, Benjamin Kenemer, Amanda Braswell, Kimberly Lee, Karrie Bell, and Tyler Strickland; and great grandchildren, Adalyn Braswell, Luke Wells, Matthew Wells, Avery Lee, Beckett Braswell, Susan Rae Kenemer, and Lennox Bell. The family will receive friends at Rose & Graham Funeral Home in Coats from 6:00PM to 8:00PM Tuesday.