He leaves behind his wife of 53 years, Lucia Varrella; five children: his daughter, Leona and her husband Alan of Virginia Beach; sons, John W. “Bill” Holmes, Bart and wife Kathy Holmes of ...

“It’s a good chance he probably would have been nominated for election to the House of Delegates that fall,” says Kathy Lee ... of Southside Virginia. On May 3, 1869, Holmes was shot to ...

John William Holmes Virginia Beach – John William “Bill ... brother, Bart and wife Kathy Holmes; brother, Ralph Holmes; sister, Julieana Holmes; brother, Michael Finney; and sisters ...