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- The Hartford Courant (CT)
October 8, 2000
Frederic Colvin Holmes, 93, died Monday, (October 2, 2000) at the Valley View Health Care, Elkhart, IN, after a short illness.
He was born January 29, 1907 in Garfield, NJ, to George Hiram and Amy May (Colvin) Holmes.
Mr. Holmes graduated form Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, in 1931 with a degree in Civil Engineering. In 1931 he went to Canada and was an engineer with the Shawingan Water and Power Co., installing a dam. From 1934 through 1938 he was an engineer and superintendent with the National Parks Service. In 1937 he accepted the job as highway and bridge engineer for the town of Lee, MA, and in 1940 he became the Chief Engineer for the Smith Paper Company in Lee, MA, and supervised the engineering for five plants in that area. In 1950, he joined the Bird Machine Company of South Walpole, MA, as sales engineer, and was assigned to the Chicago office.
He moved his family to LaPorte, IN, where he lived for 50 years before moving to his son's home inElkhart, IN. He retired in 1972. He was past master and 32nd degree mason and 60 year member of the Evening Star Masonic Lodge in Lee, MA, where he was also president and member of the Lee Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the Finance Board for seven years.
On June 16, 1934, in Springfield, MA, he married Katherine Lane Spinney, who died September 25, 1953 in Pittsfield, MA. He was preceded in death by a brother, George L. Holmes.
Surviving are two sons, Curtis L. Holmes of Elkhart, IN, and Milton C. Holmes of Queenstown, MD; five grandchildren; and four great grandchildren; and two sisters, Martha Fish of Longmeadow, MA, and Dorothy Bowen of Norwood, MA.
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