Sunday, May 15 Aaronic Presithood day Nice meeting in ward this evening. Rich Brewer spoke and did well. Mira has not felt very well today and she remained in bed. I attend Sunday School and evening meeting and later Mrs Rich & I go to High School to attend a Rotary pragent What is America very good. I eat dinner at Cleones & Royals & bring home plate for Mrs Rich Monday, May 16 Stormy day Write some letters Read. Go down to Weber College to lecture on Alcoholism. Dr Bacon from Yal Clinic. Good Mira not feeling very well Cloud burst out by Willard. Much damage Deseret News May 19 1949 DIES Will R. Holmes, newspaperman and former senator, died Wednesday at his residence in Salt Lake. Will R. Holmes Funeral Set Saturday Funeral services for Will R. Holmes, 75, of 863 Wilshire PI., who died Wednesday at his residence after a long illness, will be conducted Saturday at 2 30 p.m. at 125 North Main St. Friends may call at the mortuary Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. and Saturday prior to services. Burial will be in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. Mr. Holmes was a veteran Utah and Idaho newspaperman and a former state senator. He was born Feb. 11, 1874, in Montpelier, Ida., a son of James and Harriet Phelps Holmes. He received his early education in Montpelier and was married to Emma Bowen there Feb. 19, 1896. Serves on Mission Shortly after his marriage he served a two year mission to the Mississippi region for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Mr. Holmes was employed about eight years with Union Pacific Railroad Company. He was elected clerk and auditor of Bear Lake County, Ida. in 1907 where he served until 1911. At that time he became editor and manager of a weekly paper in Paris, Ida., and began his newspaper career. Mr. Holmes was elected president of Eastern Idaho Press Association and in 1917 moved to Brigham City, where he became editor of Box Elder Journal. In 1930 he put the paper on a daily basis. Headed Press Society He was elected president of Utah State Press Association in 1926 and represented Utah at a convention in Orlando, Fla. In the political field, Mr. Holmes was appointed to complete an unfinished term in Utah House of Representatives in 1935. In 1936 he was elected to the Utah Senate on a Democratic ticket and served a four year term. The late Gov. Henry H. Blood made him a member of Golden Gate International Exposition committee in 1939 in charge of Utah day there. Mr. Holmes was assistant supervisor of Utah Bureaus of Census, with headquarters in Ogden, in 1940. He then moved to Salt Lake City. Survivors, besides his widow, include five daughters, Mrs. Irene H. Budge, Mrs. Velma H. Tueller and Mrs. Nathell H. Call, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Wanda H. Jacobsen and Mrs. Jean H. Hixson, Tulare, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Effie H. Hibbert, Los Angeles; 12 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Mr. Holmes only son, William Lee Holmes, was killed in action on Iwo Jima, in 1945.