June C. Holmes' Obituary
June Rosaline Campbell was born on February 3, 1930, in High Point, NC, to James Augustus Campbell and Cleo Viola Campbell, and was the eldest of five children.
June’s father was a barber and owned his own shop during her childhood, where he regularly told his customers about Jesus and prayed with many of them to receive Christ as their Savior in the back room of his business. So she was raised in the things of God from early days and came to know Him as her own Savior while she was young.
As teenagers, June and her sister, Mildred, sang on a live gospel radio broadcast on Sunday mornings. Later they were part of a traveling gospel trio called The Campbell Sisters and provided special music for revival meetings and other church gatherings around the state. June played piano organ, guitar, and accordion, as well as singing the lead.
June’s excellence and versatility in church music continued throughout her life. She attended Southern Pilgrim College in Kernersville, NC, then attended and graduated from Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, TN, with a bachelor’s degree in English and a minor in music.
On July 13th, 1953, June married Joseph McCray Holmes in her home church in High Point. They had three children — Kathy (Frizzell), Kenneth, and Kimberly. Together they served several churches in the Wesleyan denomination (then called Pilgrim Holiness), and in 1965, McCray and June, along with a small group of people, started Calvary Church of the Nazarene in east Charlotte, NC. To support the family during the early days of a new church plant, she and McCray both served as school teachers at Northside Baptist Academy.
June was a devoted wife, mother, and fellow servant in ministry, always faithfully at her husband’s side. Over the years she has played and taught piano, played the organ, sang duets with McCray, taught Sunday School, directed Children’s Church, and tirelessly cared for her own family as well as her church family in every congregation they have served. She later worked as a medical records manager while still volunteering in local church ministry. Even during the season of life when most would be retiring, she and McCray served in ministry at Northdale Baptist Church in north Charlotte for many years directing the music and filling the pulpit.
Always one to enjoy fellowship and laughter, June cherished the beautiful and deep friendships she had with the ladies of the church. She, along with six of her closest friends, called themselves The Magnificent Seven.
On the morning of October 9th, 2025 — just 25 days after her beloved husband, McCray — June, at 95 years old, stepped across that line where this world meets the next, and met face to face the Lord and Savior she loved and served all her life. She was no doubt welcomed by those words we all long to hear, “Well done, my good and faithful servant… enter into the joy of the Lord!”
Ready to welcome her along with McCray were her parents, her sister Mildred Crane, her brother Lloyd Campbell, her youngest daughter Kim Holmes, and her son-in-love Ron Frizzell.
She is survived by her brother Ray (Reva) Campbell, her sister Betty Jo Luther (Robert), her son Kenneth (Linda) Holmes and her daughter Kathy Frizzell (Ron). In anticipation of her imminent home going, June was honored along with her husband in a memorial service at Charlotte Calvary Church of the Nazarene on September 27th with friends and members of both families gathered. They will be interred together at Northlake Cemetery at a later date. (Their memorial service can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/plBrKoJyfmg?feature=shared)
June is still deeply loved and already greatly missed, but we rejoice knowing that she now lives and walks in all the reality and joy of Heaven, no longer hindered by the earthly body that sustained her for nearly 96 years… To God be the glory!!!
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