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Submitted: 10/19/21 • Approved: 10/19/21 • Last Updated: 10/22/21 • R464097-G464096-S3
April 30, 1907-August 10, 2001
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER - Clara Marie Finsterwald Holmes, 94, died Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2001.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today in Wheeler Cemetery with Bill Morrison, minister of the Church of Christ, officiating. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home.
Mrs. Holmes was born April 30, 1907, to Abraham and Sophia Schnell Finsterwald on the family ranch in Wheeler County. Mr. and Mrs. Finsterwald were a pioneer ranching family in Wheeler County.
Mrs. Holmes had lived in Albuquerque, N.M., since 1945 and moved back to Wheeler in 1995. She had worked in banking in Wheeler and Albuquerque and had owned and operated a variety store in Wheeler. She loved gardening.
Survivors include a sister-in-law, Mary Finsterwald of Wheeler; and several nieces and nephews.
The family suggests memorials be to the Wheeler Public Library.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 10, 2001)
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U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Clara F. Holmes
Birth Date: 30 Apr 1907
Issue Year: Before 1951
Issue State: Texas
Last Residence: 79096, Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Death Date: 8 Aug 2001
Death date on marker is date of burial instead of death
Contributed on 10/19/21
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Record #: 464097