LINCOLNVILLE – Doris Arlene Miller Holmes, 88, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007. She was born May 18, 1918, at the Twin Elms Farm, Lincolnville, the daughter of Annie (Richards) and Horace Miller. She spent many wonderful years in Lincolnville, walking to many relatives and friends’ homes. She helped her mother with numerous chores and rode to Belfast with her father in his horse-drawn wagon to sell the produce. Doris graduated from Crosby High School in 1936. She worked in the office of Daley Shoe Co. until she met her husband of 46 years, Asa O. Holmes. She then became a homemaker, eventually becoming the bookkeeper for Holmes Greenhouse and Florist, a position she managed with great pride and accuracy until her stroke several days ago. She was a founder and Sunday school teacher of the Mason Mills Community Church, Belfast, and a longtime member of the United Christian Church of Lincolnville Center. There she was involved with the X-Mas Box Club, Women’s Fellowship Club and in her earlier years, part of the Jolly Dozen 4-H Club. Doris gave freely to many charities in the Belfast area and freely of her time for the American Red Cross. Doris was a member of several local historical societies. Gardening, long rides, home-style cooking and relatives received most of her spare time. She was predeceased by her husband in 1994 and a son, Stetson John in 1983. She is survived by two sons, Allen D. Holmes and his wife, Ruth and Richard A. Holmes; a sister, Jane Fossett and her daughter, Anne, of Round Pond; three grandchildren, Janet H. Jackson and her husband, Todd, Jon Holmes and fianc?e, Margot, of Denver, Joseph Holmes and wife, Ashley, of Belfast; great-grandchildren, Connor, Cassie, Gabriel and Lilly; nieces, Joyce Davis, Joette Fields, Dixie Bassett and Sandra Johnson; nephews, David Swett, Hugh Holmes and Myron “Sonny” Reynolds; a sister-in-law, Charlotte Reynolds; special friends, Ronald Dow, Betty Collins, Annie Lyons, Bea Tweedie, Lucille Paul, Olive Messer, Edgar and Lucille Allen, Joanne Boynton, Sally Savage, Peg Miller, Mary Mullen, Lowell and Dana Keene and family, all former employees of the Greenhouse and especially the present staff, Lawrence “Bub” Way and his wife, Donna, Jimmie-Lee Dulude, Debbie Rector and Frances Merrithew; as well as, all the gang on Swan Lake Avenue. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 at First Church, Belfast, 104 Church St. in Belfast. Friends may donate to the United Christian Church of Lincolnville Center, P.O. Box 288, Lincolnville Center, ME 04850. Arrangements are under the care of Crabiel-Riposta Funeral Home, 182 Waldo Ave., Belfast.
DORIS ARLENE MILLER HOLMES
