Funeral services for Scotty Holmes, 79, of Portales, will be at 2:00 PM, Mon., Mar. 6, 2017 in the Wheeler Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Brad Morgan officiating. Burial will follow in the Portales Cemetery with Jared Shearer, Jody Nix, Billy Ray Holmes, Jerry Nix, Zackery Green and Gage Holmes serving as pallbearers. All of Scotty’s golfing buddies and his many friends will be honorary pallbearers.
Scotty Edwin Holmes was born Oct. 19, 1937 in Lubbock, TX to the home of Myrtle (Dowdy) and Henry Elgin Holmes, and died Feb. 28, 2017 in Lubbock, TX. Scotty began working at Bishop Printing in Portales when he was still a teenager, and worked there until the late 1980’s when the company closed. At that time he took a job in the print shop at Eastern New Mexico University. In the mid 1990’s Scotty went to work in the Parks Dept. for the City of Portales, and worked for a time in the Portales Cemetery. After a few years he retired near the year 2000.
In 1955 Scotty joined the New Mexico National Guard unit, and served until 1964, attaining the rank of Platoon Sgt. He was active in the American Red Cross from 1987 until 1993. From 1988 until 1992 he served as the Annex Officer for Civil Emergency Preparedness for the community. Scotty was an avid golfer, and he loved animals. He enjoyed gardening, and always grew lots of vegetables and flowers. He was a terrific dancer, and loved going out to dance. All of his friends knew that Scotty enjoyed pulling pranks.
He is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Kelly and Jerry Nix of Portales and Kara Yarbrough of Texas; five grandchildren, Natasha (Jared) Shearer, Zackery Green, Dakota Yarbrough and his fiance, Skye Arbogast, Reyn Yarbrough and Erika Yarbrough; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Montez Ray of Lubbock, TX; three special nieces, Carol Holmes-Payne, Marsha Teel and Patricia Hughes, and two special nephews, Billy Ray Holmes and Rick Acker as well a number of other nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, Keith, Alan and Robert Holmes and a sister, Jewell Keith.
