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Dan Holmes

Dan Holmes is recorded in 2 distinct storys.

Susannah remembers her father Dan Holmes; the later novel identifies him as Odetta Holmes’s father through his business partner and her godfather Moses Carver.

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The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

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The older man had heavy cheeks that would be jowls in another five years or so, and lines carving their courses from the sides of his nose down to his chin. “I-want lines,” her father would have called them (and Dan Holmes had had a pretty good set of his own).

Susannah recalls her father Dan Holmes while considering Overholser’s expression.

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

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Roland nodded. He knew them, all right, although he had never met Moses Carver, the man in the middle. Dan Holmes’s partner, Odetta Holmes’s godfather. In the picture he looked to be a robust and healthy seventy, but surely by 1986 he had to be closer to eighty. Perhaps eighty-five.

The photograph identifies Moses Carver as Dan Holmes’s partner and Odetta Holmes’s godfather.