Long time Fayetteville residents, Theodore Holmes and his son Alan J. Holmes, will be interred at White Chapel Memory Gardens on July 7, 2023. The Committal service will be held at 11 a.m. with family and friends in attendance.
Theodore, known as Ted, was born in 1919 and lived more than 50 years on Woodchuck Hill Road, Fayetteville. His parents were Ernest Julio Holmes and Linley Howell Holmes. He attended High Bridge Union School and Fayetteville High School, graduating in 1936. He married his high school sweetheart, Edna Marie Conde, in 1940 and together they had three children. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and served in the Pacific as a Radarman.
After WWII he worked as a tradesman and later became a letter carrier for the U.S. Post Office in Fayetteville where he had a walking route.
Ted and Edna enjoyed bowling and square dancing. They moved from their Woodchuck Hill home to Wexford Rd in Dewitt around 1970. After Edna died in 1978, Ted retired and moved to Tucson, AZ. There he met and married Kathleen Curtis with whom he enjoyed traveling and square dancing until her passing in 2003.
In 2015 at the age of 96 he moved again to Canton GA to be near his daughter. He celebrated his 100th birthday in Georgia surrounded by family and friends. Theodore passed on Sept. 6, 2022, at the age of 103. His oldest son Alan Jay Holmes predeceased him in 2018. Survivors include his daughter Karen (Don Converse) of Canton GA and son Theodore Ross Holmes of Dewitt. Also surviving are three grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren as well as other beloved family members, stepchildren and step-grandchildren.
Alan J. Holmes, son of Theodore and Edna, was born in 1941 and grew up in the family home on Woodchuck Hill Road. He attended Manlius Elementary/Junior High and Fayetteville Manlius High School, graduating in 1959. He studied at Morrisville Technical School and Spartan School of Aeronautics before becoming a commercial pilot for Trans World Airlines. He rose to the rank of Captain and piloted 747 jumbo jets on international routes. He enjoyed boating and his homes in Old Lyme, CT, and Englewood, FL. Alan passed on Dec. 15, 2018, in New Haven, CT. He is survived by his wife Anne Wirz Holmes, son Peter Watt Holmes of Alameda, CA and two grandchildren. Also surviving is his first wife Lorie Ladd, native of Fayetteville, now of Richmond, IN.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Alzheimer’s Association. Friends may contact the family by emailing [email protected].
