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Disoriented And Confused Gloria McCuiston, a corpsman at Bethesda during the colonel’s hospitalization, recalled that Holmes was disoriented and confused and had told staff members that he was going to give them his farm for taking care of him. This strange behavior began about three weeks after his admission to Bethesda on October 8, according to McCuiston. She also reported that numerous pages, dates from October 23-30, are missing from the nursing notes on Col. Holmes. Under cross examination, she acknowledged that loss of nursing notes happens t©> Bethesda “but it’s not common,” particularly to have notes from six days in a row disappear. Virginia Tennyson, a friend of the colonel’s since 1%7 who told the court he once asked her to marry him, recalled that Holmes began to change in 1978, becoming confused, forgetting things and neglecting his appearance.
Earlier, sometime between 1973 and 1975, she testified, the colonel said that both Nancy Jones Natt and his friend Homer Jenkins “were taken care of’ in his will.
Mrs. Tennyson’s mothet Mary Ann Carlson and several of the colonel’s cousins and their children all testified that in 1979, Holmes seemed at first not to recognize them when they visited him unannounced at the farm. They recalled how the colonel was dressed in his underwear during these visits, attire that they maintained was inappropriate and out of character.
Robert E. Lee, a friend and business associate of the colonel’s since the 1920s, recalled that Holmes had been “very, very neat about his person and very tight...about his economy and his affairs. He was methodical...He kept records of pretty much everything he did,” Lee said.
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