Ethleen Peacock Holmes Case

© Enid News and Eagle

1982

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Ponca City – Ethleen Peacock Case, 91, a longtime resident of the Marland area, died Monday at her home in Ponca City after a brief illness.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 PM Thursday in the Woodland Christian Church at Ponca City with the Rev. Dennis Clark, her grandson from Guthrie, and the Rev. Paul Kreger, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Odd Fellow Cemetery under direction of Grace Memorial Chapel, Ponca City.

Mrs. case was born February 15, 1891, in Page County, Iowa, to Perry and Rosa Belle Allison. When she was three years old, the family moved to Waelder Station, Texas, then to Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1904, settling on a farm near Billings. She graduated from the Billings High School and attended Central State Teachers College at Edmond. She then taught school for two years in Noble and Garfield Counties. On August 13, 1913, she married Fred S. Holmes of Billings. The couple moved to Tetonia, Idaho, then to Hillsdale and to Marland where he worked for Foster Lumber Company. The couple had two daughters and a son. He died in 1923.

In 1925, she married Calvin T. Case. They made their home at Marland. He died at the age of 94 on September 24, 1980. The couple had three sons. She moved from her home in Marland to Ponca City in October 1981.

Mrs. case was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, Red Rock Order of the Eastern Star Chapter No.180 of which she was an active member for 54 years and served as chaplain for 19 years.

She was affiliated with the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, at the age of 13 and was presently a member of Woodland Christian Church at Ponca City.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Doris Mock, Sand Springs, and Mrs. Lolabelle Summers, Ponca City; four sons, Fred Allison Holmes, Newkirk, Coe William Case, Meritt Island, Florida, Calvin T. Case Jr., Ponca City, and Robert Alan Case, Kingfisher; 24 grandchildren; 33 great – grandchildren; five great – great – grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Walter (Vernie) Goe, Tulsa.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred S. Holmes, in 1923, and her husband, Calvin T. Case, September 25, 1980.

Memorials may be made in her name to the American Legion Children's Home at Ponca City.

The family will be at 1308 Meadowbrook, Ponca City.

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