Ernest Holmes Sr.

He later would also serve a term as a member of the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga and the American Society of Automotive Engineers .

Many would have said he was in stout health shortly before his death; sources say he went to a local course for a round of golf and then a bridge game the next day on Saturday.

At 4 o'clock on the morning of June 10, 1945, he woke his wife feeling unwell and dying shortly after that at the age of 62.

[1] A few wreckers were sold directly to the United States Government at the tail end of World War I, to be outfitted for military usage.

[5] They would be used in full force during the second World War were in which Holmes Co supplied the Allies with 6 to 7 thousand military tier wreckers.