SHERIDAN - Services for Sheridan resident Pauline R. Holmes. 83, will be conducted at 10 am 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 main years working with 4-11 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

Casper Star-Tribune - Feb. 15, 2003.