Grace (Foege) Holmes

Grace (Foege) Holmes passed away on Feb. 8, 2023, in Lenexa, Kan. She was the first woman to graduate from PLU to be accepted to the University of Washington Medical School and one of two women in her class who graduated with M.D. degrees in 1957. Grace married Fred Holmes, a fellow medical school classmate, in 1955. She had an interesting career serving on faculties at Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, interspersed with medical mission work in Malaysia from 1959 to 1963, and in Tanzania from 1970 to 1972, in addition to publishing medical papers, writing several books, and caring for six children (five adopted and one biological).