Peggy Holmes

Peggy Slade Holmes

1934-2015

Peggy Slade Holmes passed away unexpectedly after a lingering, but unexplained, illness when her heart was burdened with blood clots in her lungs on August 23, 2015. She was born in Ogden, Utah, on March 17, 1934, to Cora S. and Elwood (Duff) Slade. After attending Mound Fort Elementary and Junior High Schools, she graduated from Ogden High School in 1952.

She married Douglas J. Holmes on March 18, 1955 and later that year, they began a 24-year adventure with the U.S. Air Force. Peggy had several careers in her life. Her first and most important one was as a wife and mother as she worked hard to establish and maintain a beautiful home for Doug and their three children, Brad, Kathy, and Scott as Doug was assigned to bases in Texas, Idaho, Louisiana, Virginia, Vietnam, Colorado, and the Pentagon in Washington D. C.

While Doug was assigned to the Pentagon from 1972 to 79, Peggy began a new career as a Reservation Agent for United Air Lines where the whole family caught the travel bug with which they are still afflicted. She also developed a love of French cooking and Michelin Three Star Restaurants.

After she and Colonel Holmes decided to retire from the Air Force in 1979, they moved back to the home in Ogden that the family had lived in while he was serving in Vietnam 1967/68. As Doug attended the University of Utah College of Law, 1980 to 83, Peggy earned a certificate as an Interior Designer from the Salt Lake School of Interior Design and thus began her next career as an interior designer and owner of two ateliers, one on Historic 25th Street in Ogden and one in the Silver Lake Village area of Deer Valley in Mont Cervin Plaza, Panache Interiors and Antiques, 1985 to 2005. Her shop in Deer Valley was small but well located and very successful.

When Peggy sold her interest in the shop in Deer Valley and the condo in Mont Cervin, she continued her over-arching career as a gardener of beautiful and exotic flowers and cultivator of an extraordinary and unique yard.

Although she has passed from our scene, she will never pass from the hearts and minds of her family.

She has joined her Mother and Father as well as her beloved sisters and brother, Dean, Clyde, Rada, and baby Artois who she never knew, and great-granddaughter, Quincie Higginson.

In addition to her husband of 60 years, and her three children, Brad (Cathy) Holmes, Kathryn (Holmes) Pett, Scott (Lisa) Holmes, she is also survived by her sister, Carol (Jim) Dwork, seven grandchildren, Emily (Phil) Stricker, Spencer (Natalie) Holmes, Sarah Snedaker, Robbie Pett, Michael Pett, Tausha (Joshua) Higginson, Tristan (Anna) Tucker, and great-granddaughters, Abigail and Scarlett Higginson, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will be held on Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:00 am in the Ogden City Cemetery on 20th Street, enter the Cemetery from the entrance opposite Jefferson Avenue and go North to the fence and turn left. Friends may visit with  family on Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lindquist's Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd.