It is with profound sadness that we announce the sudden death of Professor Jane Teresa Holmes on November 18, at the age of 68.

An Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department, Professor Holmes was a respected academic, researcher, and dedicated educator. She will be remembered for her warmth, generosity, and commitment to teaching and learning.

She earned her PhD from the University of Virginia. Her research interests included East African colonial history, kinship, and society, her professional life-long passion.

Professor Holmes also published field and archival research on tourism in Belize, helping to further develop an anthropology of tourism in the Caribbean. Teresa was also a respected graduate supervisor. She trained many doctoral and masters students who considered her to be an esteemed mentor.

She used her life-long passion for knitting and crossword puzzles to help meet her many recent health challenges. She met those challenges with courage and without complaint. She was brave and strong in the crucial ways that matter and was a loving inspiration to her family.

She was the beloved daughter of the late Very Rev. Urban Tigner Holmes III. She is survived by her loving husband Kenneth Little and son William Tigner Holmes Little (Stephanie), her adored mother Jane Neighbours Holmes and sister Janet Cooper (Brown) both of Sewanee, Tennessee, and brothers Thom (Janae) of Atlanta, Georgia, and Allan (Kris) of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was a beloved daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, and aunt and will be dearly missed by the Little Family.

In keeping with Teresa’s wishes there will be a celebration of life service at St. Martin-in-the-Fields on the corner of Glenlake and Indian Grove (Keele subway station) on December 3, 2022, at 2:00 pm with a light reception in the parish hall to follow. A private interment will be held in Sewanee, Tennessee, at a later date.

In lieu of flowers please send donations to the Kidney Foundation of Canada.