Margaret (Coffin) Holmes (1896 - 1983)

Born 28 Jan 1896 in North Yakima, Yakima, Washington Territory, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Otis Halbert (Holms) Holmes — married 21 Dec 1933 in Yakima, Washington

Died 30 Apr 1983 at age 87 in Ellensburg, Kittitas, Washington Territory, United States

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Biography

Margaret Coffin was born on January 29, 1896 in North Yakima, Yakima Co, Washington. Margaret was the second eldest of four children born to Yakima Valley pioneers, Harvard Stanley Coffin and Anna Florence Wenner.

She was a student when she applied for a passport on October 23,1916. She scheduled travel to Japan, China, Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand.

Margaret graduated from University of Washington in Seattle in 1921. She taught English and Sociology at Washington State Normal School in Ellensburg from 1931-1940. Margaret was a poet who printed two poetry books “Out of the Sky” and “The Old Door”. Some of her poems were printed in the New Yorker magazine.

Margaret married on December 21, 1933 to Otis Halbert Holmes “Hal”, son of Otis Halbert Holmes and Mary Haskell.

Otis was born on February 22, 1902 in Cresco, Howard County, Iowa. At the age of thirteen, he moved to Walla Walla, Washington with his parents. He graduated from Whitman College in 1923. He taught High School for a year and then sat on the faculty of Central Washington College of Education at Ellensburg before and again for twelve years after completing his education at Columbia University in New York City in 1927. He then taught at Columbia for two years before returning to the faculty position that he had left in the state of Washington.

Margaret flew to Honolulu, Hawaii to attend the wedding of her nephew, Edwin Robert Ballard to Ruth Shirley Swenson on September 23, 1955. Margaret died on April 30, 1983 in Ellensburg, Kittitas, Washington.

Grandson of Dudley Chase Haskell, politics were in his blood. Like his grandfather before him, Hal Holmes was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and the consecutive seven Congresses to follow, serving from January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959. He did not seek another term. Otis died on July 27, 1977 in Yakima, Washington.

Margaret and Otis are buried in Terrace Heights Memorial Park in Yakima, Yakima County, Washington.

Sources

• *Year: 1900 Census Yakima Yakima Co WA Roll: 1754 p: 6A District: 0113; FHL microfilm: 1241754; *Year: 1910 Census N Yakima Ward 6 Yakima Co WA Roll: T624_1675 p: 4B District: 0289 FHL microfilm: 1375688; *Year: 1920 Census Yakima Yakima Co WA Roll: T625_1946 p: 2A District: 230 Image: 442; *Year: 1920 Census Walla Walla Ward 3 Walla Walla Co WA Roll: T625_1943 p: 7B District: 136 Image: 499*Year: 1930 Census Yakima Yakima Co WA Roll: 2524 p: 5A District: 0022 Image: 427.0 FHL microfilm: 2342258; *Year: 1940 Census Ellensburg Kittitas Co WA Roll: T627_4349 p: 6A District: 19-9; *Iowa Births & Christenings 1857-1947 Howard Co. (Otis Halfert Holmes); *Marriages St. Michael's Episcopal Church Yakima WA 21 Dec 1933 Otis Halbert Holmes & Margaret Coffin; *Marriages Yakima Co WA Otis Holmes & Margaret Coffin 21 Dec 1933; *Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 330; Volume #: Roll 0330 - Certificates: 37901-38400, 28 Oct 1916-03 Nov 1916 (Margaret Coffin); *Whitman College 1923 (Otis Holmes); *Columbia University 1927(Otis Holmes);*Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-Present (1943-1959 Otis Halbert Holmes); *US Social Security Death Index (Otis Holmes); *Dept of Labor, Immigration, Passenger Lists: Berengaria, Year: 1927, Arrival: New York, New York, Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957, Microfilm Roll: Roll 4042, Line: 20, Page Number: 13; *Washington Obit Index, Rutherford B. Hayes Center 1830-2011, Ellensburg Daily Record, August 31, 1970, page 10, Obituaries (H. Stanley Coffin); *Washington Death Index 1940-1996 Ellensburg (Margaret Holmes); *Washington Death Index 1940-1996 Yakima Co. (Otis Halbert Holmes); *Newspaper: The Honolulu Advertiser Ballard-Swenson 26 Sep 1955 A9 p:9 citing: Marriage; *Terrace Heights Memorial Park, Yakima, Yakima Co, Washington
• Source: S1314813688 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Record Collection 1030Ancestry Family Tree