Virginia Holmes

Virginia Holmes was born on January 1, 1928, in Fayette County, Tennessee, the daughter of the late Hoyette Lee and Liza Viola Markle Taylor. On October 29, 1950, she was united in marriage to Edgar Woodrow Holmes, who preceded her in death on December 1, 2002.

Mrs. Holmes lived in Hardin County for fifty years and worked for Savannah Manufacturing for twenty-five years as a sewing machine operator and supervisor. She was a member of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee and a volunteer for the March of Dimes. She enjoyed yard work, flower gardening, sewing and being a caretaker. She loved her family and her grandchildren.

She departed this life on January 30, 2014, at the Lexington Manor Nursing Home in Lexington, Tennessee, at the age of 86 years and 29 days.

She is survived by four daughters, Pat Gray and her husband, Richard of Calhoun City, Mississippi, Gail Harvey of Lexington, Tennessee, Debi Bearden and her husband, Jackie of Huron, Tennessee and Sandie McGarrity and her husband, Mike of Chesapeake, Virginia; eleven grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren; siblings, Edward Taylor and his wife, Hazel of Memphis, Tennessee, Ruby Callahan of Holly Springs, Mississippi, Joyce Atkeison of Somerville, Tennessee and Connie Taylor and his wife, Rose of Mesa, Arizona; and sister-in-law, Jean Taylor of Memphis, Tennessee

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by siblings, Thelma Dennie, James Taylor and J. T. Taylor and one brother-in-law, Ralph Atkeison and one great-grandchild, Zayne Taylor.