This is Carl Holmes and Gesche Rolfs wedding picture. It was taken on June 3, 1914, at Elkhorn, Nebraska.
 

Carl Oscar Ingwald Holmes
b: March 15, 1891 d: March 24, 1951 Elkhorn, Nebraska.

Gesche Abel Rolfs
b: February 7, 1894 Elkhorn, Nebraska d: November 15, 1944 Elkhorn, Nebraska.

     

Cindy Pickard writes: "Carl Oscar Holmes & Gesche (Rolfs) Holmes were my grandparents. Carl Oscar was usually called "Oscar". He was the son of Nels Christian Holmes and Ingeborg (Fredrikson) Holmes. Gesche was the daughter of Christian Theodore Rolfs and Louise (Wittorf) Rolfs. They had 5 children: Nels Oscar Holmes, Harold Holmes, Kermit Holmes, Lois Holmes, and Carol Jean (Holmes) Pickard."



Lois Elaine Holmes
b: April 16, 1920 Elkhorn, Nebraska
d: December 24, 1978
Glendale, California
This is my aunt Lois Holmes. She was a daughter of Oscar Holmes and Gesche (Rolfs) Holmes. When I was young, she moved out to California. We went out to visit her several times. When she died, my mother had her brought back to Omaha, and she is buried beside her parents at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

 

 



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