Richard "Ricky" Holmes

RICHARD HOLMES

Richard Allen “Ricky” Holmes, age 63, of Memphis, TN, formerly of Columbus, MS, passed away April 1, 2019, at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, TN.  Funeral services will be Thursday, April 4, 2019, at 2:00 PM at Memorial Gunter Peel Chapel College St. location with Rev. Zach Guess officiating.  The interment will immediately follow at Friendship Cemetery.

Mr. Holmes was born July 17, 1955, in Columbus, MS, to the late Bobby Jewell and Gayle Murrah Holmes, Sr.  He attended Caldwell High School and later Mississippi State University.  Richard, who went by Ricky, was a sincere, kind, and generous person who had many friends, most of whom were from Caldwell High School or church friends from Columbus or Memphis.  He was a member of the Grace Chapel Primitive Baptist Church of Memphis which took a keen interest in his life helping him to care for himself.  He recovered from a stroke and cancer and was an avid reader of the Bible and all things science and history.  In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death last Thanksgiving by his youngest brother, Charles Jeffrey Holmes.

Survivors include his brother, Bobby J. Holmes, Jr. of Memphis, TN, sister, Judy Holmes Abide and her husband Peter of Biloxi, MS, uncle, James Harold Holmes of Columbus, MS, and numerous cousins.

Pallbearers will be Bobby Holmes, Jr., Doug Murrah, Peter Abide, and family and friends.

Memorials may be made to the donor’s favorite charity.