{"id":2413,"date":"2021-04-28T09:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:51:43","slug":"elizabeth-holmes-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2021\/04\/28\/elizabeth-holmes-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Holmes \u201962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elizabeth Holmes \u201962<\/strong> of Austin, Texas, died March 28, 2021. She was 81. Elizabeth earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in English and speech at Illinois Wesleyan, where she graduated as salutatorian and was active in many campus groups and organizations. After her time at IWU, she pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago and University of Texas before ultimately earning a master\u2019s degree in library and information services from the University of Rhode Island. She was a high school English teacher in Illinois, taught graduate level courses in New Hampshire, owned a bookstore in Texas, and worked as a librarian for over four decades. She enjoyed writing and published a book of haikus. She employed her storytelling ability to bring children and literature together. She loved people, books, conversation and her family. She is survived by three children, five grandchildren, a brother, the father of her children, <strong>Warren Townsend \u201963<\/strong>, and many cousins, including <strong>Anne Foster Nott \u201965<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Family invite friends to share memories of Ms. Holmes on a tribute wall set up through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/austinnaturalfunerals.com\/m\/obituaries\/Elizabeth-Holmes-6\/Memories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/austinnaturalfunerals.com\/m\/obituaries\/Elizabeth-Holmes-6\/Memories.&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1619642259072000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFzSebp77Od7PYc5pg757lKlqb7SQ\">https:\/\/austinnaturalfunerals.<wbr \/>com\/m\/obituaries\/Elizabeth-<wbr \/>Holmes-6\/Memories.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 613px; top: 205.702px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Holmes \u201962 of Austin, Texas, died March 28, 2021. She was 81. Elizabeth earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in English and speech at Illinois Wesleyan, where she graduated as salutatorian and was active in many campus groups and organizations. After her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2021\/04\/28\/elizabeth-holmes-62\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}