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Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes
Monticello
Robert Holmes, 78, died Friday morning, Dec. 2, 2022, at the Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, with his family by his side.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, with interment in the Oakwood Cemetery. Father Paul Baldwin will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello, where a parish Vigil service will be held at 4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Sacred Heart Catholic Church or the Monticello Fire Department. By visiting goettschonline.com, you may share your thoughts, memories and condolences with Bob’s family and sign the online guest book.
Surviving is his wife of 58 years, Kathleen; three children, Mike (Sue), Steve (Audra) and Michele (Joe) Bayne; 11 grandchildren; 9 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Betty Prull and Sharon (Don) Katuin; and two brothers-in-law, David Conway and Richard Harms.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Margaret Harms and Rosalie Conway; and a brother, Charles Holmes.
Robert Lee Holmes was born March 31, 1944, at the John McDonald Hospital, Monticello, Iowa. He was the son of Samuel and Mary Mitchell, Holmes. Bob graduated from the Monticello Community Schools with the class of 1962. He married Kathleen Marie Harms on June 6, 1964, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Bob worked at Freese Motors and Schoon Dodge in Monticello, before starting his own business Holmes Transmission in 1984. He retired in 2016 after 32 years.
Bob served 34 years on the Monticello Fire Department from 1966 until 2000. He had coached Little League when his boys were playing. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus. Bob was an avid hunter and fisherman. He loved sports as well never missing a Hawkeye, Cubs or Packer game. But most important to him was time spent with his family.
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