Margaret Pressley Holmes

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Margaret Pressley Holmes, 102, widow of McNeil Holmes, died Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, at Wallingford Nursing Facility in Wallingford, Pa.

Born Sept. 26, 1911, in the Manning Pieland area of Clarendon County, she was a daughter of the late Prince and Mary Watson Pressley. She attended the public schools of Clarendon County. She attended Galilee Baptist Church in Mayesville. Upon migrating to Richmond, Va., for a number of years, she went on to Sharon Hill, Pa., where she joined First African Baptist Church. She was a senior choir member and a trustee. She continued actively until her health failed.

Margaret was the last of her parent's legacy. She was preceded in death by five sisters, Mary, Marie, Cammie, Dianna and Lummie; and six brothers, Moses, Simon, Prince, Willis, Johnson and James.

Margaret leaves to cherish her memory seven nieces; five nephews; a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; other nieces and nephews; a sister-in-law, Edith V.R. Pressley of Lynchburg; and a number of cousins and friends.

We were blessed to have her life shared with us.

A wake service will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday before funeral services.

Funeral service  for Margaret Pressley Holmes will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, at First African Baptist Church, 901 Clifton Ave. in Sharon Hill, Pa., with the Rev. Dr. Richard A. Dent, pastor, as eulogist.

Claude J. Edney Funeral Home Inc. is in charge of arrangements.

Announcement courtesy of Job's Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St. in Sumter.