D.P. Holmes

David Preston "D.P." Holmes,73, died Sunday, November 28, 2010 at MBMC in Jackson. Visitation will be 5-8pm Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at Chancellor Funeral Home in Byram. Services will be 11am Wednesday, December 1, 2010 in the funeral home chapel with a one hour visitation prior to service. Interment will follow at Lakewood South.\ \ Mr. Holmes was born in New Hebron, MS on May 31, 1937 to David Marshall Holmes and Loma Marie Dampeer Holmes. He was a Shriner and Mason with the Forest Hill Lodge. Mr. Holmes was owner/operator of D.P. Holmes Trucking in Byram and member of Lakeshore Methodist Church.\ \ He is preceded in death by his wife Vera Dotson Holmes and brother Billy Marshall Holmes. \ \ Survivors include his sons, David Holmes, Jr. (DeeDee) and Douglas Melvin Holmes; daughters, Tammy Rose Vreeland (Doug) and Terrie Marbury (Curtiss) of Rankin county; sister, Geraldine Dickerson; 9 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.\ \