Roger Wendell Holmes, 80, of Baltimore, Maryland, died May 15, 2021.
He was born in Gloucester, and was the son of the late Levison and Mary Booker Holmes. He was a 1958 graduate of T.C. Walker High School, and served in the U.S. Army.
He was a member of High Rock Missionary Baptist Church, Baltimore.
Survivors include his wife Iris; two children, Anthony Holmes of Hampton, and LaToya Bell of Baltimore; two brothers, Clarence Holmes of Gloucester, and Levison Frizzell Holmes of Reno, Nevada; five sisters, Ernestine Holmes-Greene of Portsmouth, Diane Gunn of Newport News, Myra Bowser of Newport News, Fannie Monette Osborne of Gloucester, and Herma Kee of Hampton, and six grandchildren.