sentences:  Holmes was born John Curtis Estes on August 8, 1944, in the small rural town of Ashville, Ohio, about south of Columbus.He was the youngest of four children born to 26-year-old Mary June (née Barton) Holmes, but the name of his father, railroad worker Carl Estes, is left blank on his birth certificate.Mary had married Edgar Harvey Holmes, who was the father of her three older children - Dale, Edward and Anne.