SHERIDAN - Services for Sheridan resident Pauline R. Holmes, 83, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 17, at Champion-Ferries Funeral Home in Sheridan by the Rev. Douglas Goodwin.  Burial will be in the Elks Section of Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16.

She died Feb. 12, 2003, at Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County in Sheridan.

Born March 25, 1919, in Sheridan, she was the daughter of Paul and Ruth (Chapman) Workman; was raised and educated in the Sheridan area; and graduated from Sheridan High School.

She worked at Fryberger's Guest Ranch, where she met Ray Holmes.  They were married Jan. 18, 1940, in Gillette.

>From 1940 to 1948, the couple worked and lived on more than a dozen ranches in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana; then spent the next 12 years at the Diamond Cross Ranch in Birney, Mont.  They moved to Sheridan in late 1980 and were featured in a 1981 public television documentary, "On the Cowboy Trail"; and in a book, "Working Cowboy," published in 1995.

An accomplished cook, painter, seamstress and gardener, she was active in the Cowbelles and spent many years working with 4-H groups in the area.  After retiring, the couple enjoyed traveling to Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, Branson, Mo., and Las Vegas.

Survivors include her daughter, Shirley Dupree of Chevy Chase, Md.; and three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, a son, two brothers and two sisters.

Memorials may be made to the Senior Center or Big Horn Historical Society, in care of Delphine Toner, First Interstate Bank, Box 2007, Sheridan 82801.