Holmes, Mrs Tommie Pearl

This is the day the Lord was made; I hope all is well and Rejoicing in it. I am Tommie Pearl Holmes. I was born in Cataula, Ga. On December Twenty-fifth, Nineteen Hundred Twenty, to Janie Iola and Jacob Ward. My family moved to Columbus Ga. when I was three years old. I went to Fifth Ave Grade School. I started there in the second grade because my mother who was a supply teacher taught me at home. I also had two aunts who were teachers. I attended Spencer Vocational High School in Columbus, Ga., where I majored in Home Economics and Nursing. I also attended Jamaica Vocational High School of Ja...