Blaney Richard Holmes of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on November 22, 1942 to Arthur James Holmes Sr and Ira Margaret (Taylor) Holmes Brown. He had siblings Arthur James Holmes, Jr., Celeste (Holmes) Shaw, Gwendolyn (Holmes) Carter, Emily Holmes, LePearl Foster, Albert Foster, and Douglass Holmes. He married Josie Mae Jackson, and had children Phillip Bernard Stewart, Steven Richard Greene, Phillip Bernard Stewart, Kenneth Jerome Holmes, Sr., Mary Stevens Sander, John Sanders, and Renetta Perry Hayes. Blaney Holmes died at age 55 years old on May 3, 1998, and was buried at Houston National Cemetery
Section K2 Site 205 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive, in Houston.