Alan Lawrence Holmes

Alan Lawrence Holmes, of Independence, Missouri, died January 20, 2021, at the age of 67, from complications of kidney failure.

He was born July 4, 1953, in Independence, Missouri, to Wayne and Bernie (Fleeharty) Holmes. After graduating from Lee's Summit High School he was accepted into the inaugural class of the six-year medical school program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where students met with patients on their first day of classes. He received the M.D. degree in 1978 and spent his three years of residency in Minot, North Dakota. He then took up practice in Blair, Nebraska, and remained there five years.

In 1986, Dr. Holmes moved to Loveland, Colorado, joining his parents, who had just moved there following his dad's retirement from Western Electric. There he did insurance physicals while also working to establish a mobile home park in Fort Collins, which provides to this day much-needed affordable housing. Following his dad's death in 1997, he moved with his mother back to the Kansas City area and continued to oversee the operation of his mobile home park from afar.

He was an enthusiastic tenor. He sang in high school musicals and choirs, in the choir at his church, and as a chorus member numerous times in the annual performance of Handel's Messiah at the RLDS Auditorium in Independence.

Dr. Holmes was preceded in death by his parents and by his niece, Sarah; he is survived by his two brothers and their spouses, Gary and Roxanne Holmes, Randall Holmes and Liza Weisbrod, by five nieces and nephews, and by ten grandnieces and grandnephews.