MOUNT VERNON — Lois Geiger Holmes died on Nov. 11, 2020, at the home of her son Robert in Winston-Salem, NC. She had been living in North Carolina since January 2015 when she moved from Fresno, CA , where she had lived with her husband Bill for 22 years.
Lois was the daughter of John and Gladys Geiger. John was the superintendent of schools in Mount Vernon from 1941 to 1957. Lois graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1949 and attended Baldwin-Wallace College from 1949 to 1951, then transferred to Western Reserve University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology. She worked for the Cuyahoga Child Welfare Department for one year. She married Albert William Holmes in l954 when he was a medical student at Western Reserve. After two years in the US Army, the family moved to Hinsdale IL where they made their home for the next 14 years. By this time they had four children, two boys and two girls. In 1975 they moved to Lubbock, Texas where Dr. Holmes became Chair of Medicine at the newly formed Texas Tech University School of Medicine. Lois and her husband left Texas in 1990 for Fresno, CA, where they lived together until Bill died in 2005. Lois stayed until January 2015 when she went to live at Bermuda Village in Advance, NC.
Lois is survived by two sons, William of Bellevue, WA, and Robert of Winston-Salem, and daughter, Elizabeth of Chicago, IL. Lois’ sister Jane was a neighbor at Bermuda Village. Lois was also preceded in death by her daughter, Nancy, who died in 1979.
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