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Robert A. Holbrook 1910 - 2008 Thomasville, Georgia

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Robert A. Holbrook 1910 - 2008 Thomasville, Georgia
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Obituary for Robert A. Holbrook
Robert A. Holbrook
Services for Robert A. Holbrook, 98, of Thomasville, are at 2 p.m., Thursday, April 3, 2008, at First Baptist Church Chapel. The Rev. Dr. Milton C. Gardner will officiate and interment is in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Mr. Holbrook died March 31 at the Golden Living Center. Born Jan. 3, 1910, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, he was the son of the late Arthur Chauncey and Laura C. Messenger Holbrook. On October 21, 1929, he married Margaret Joiner Holbrook, who preceded him in death. He worked for WSB radio and TV for over forty years, until his retirement as Director of Engineers. During World War II, Mr. Holbrook worked on a U.S. military project at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developing radar for fighter aircraft. He was a long time member of the Lions Club and he served one term as District Governor. He was a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include daughters and sons-in-law, Dorothy H. and Al Leary of Washington, MO., Martha H. and Clayton West of The Villages of Lady Lake, Fla., Roberta H. and Howard Floyd of Thomasville and Anna H. and Dick Brown of Edmond, OK.; grandchildren, Robert Leary, Laura L. Carder, Marsha Porcelli, Michael West, Jeffrey West, Marjorie Johnson, Sheri Curry, Vicki Cherry, Deborah Fiveash, Donna Courson and Scott Floyd; 22 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister, Marion Holbrook. Memorial contributions may be made to Gideons International, P.O. Box 2361, Thomasville, GA. 31799. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. Visitors may sign the online guest register at www.allenfh.com.
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Debby Stevens
I'm a Christian, and I'm a daughter of Allan B. Holbrook, now in heaven. My married name is Debby Stevens.
My parents, Allan and Marie, were devout Christians, and had 10 children. They were both school teachers, but Mom quit teaching at public school after marriage. But both Mom and Dad home-schooled us all - starting when I was in 1st grade - that's when they came to the decision to home-school us. Dad earned an income through being an English teacher here in Traverse City, for man years. Dad started some Bible meetings that took place in the homes of friends of ours and in our own. He was the main teacher in it, and it was in a discoursing style - he would talk about spiritual things with the fathers of the families, each time, and all the children of the families would sit and listen to it all.
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