Dad's Shpeel

A little bit about Grandma Grandpa Holbrook. Lamoni Dale Holbrook was born May 23, 1914 and was raised on a farm in West Point Utah. He married Grandma on Valentines day in 1939 in the Salt Lake Temple. Violet Beverly Richter was born on July 5, 1919. Grandpa served in the navy in the North Pacific during WWII. He became a mortition and funeral director after the war. He managed the clearfield Lindquist mortuary until 1961 when he started his own business, Holbrook Funeral Chapel in the East Millcreek area of SLC. Grandpa retired in 1985 and from then until 1995 They served five missions for the church, including a stake mission, Salt Lake Temple Mission, Newel K. Whitney store in Kirtland Ohio, Johannesberg South Africa Temple mission and the Washington DC Temple Missio. Grandpa in 1996 at the age of 81 form cancer and Grandma died in 2005 at the age of 85 from a broken hip and Alsheimers.

Grandma and Grandpa had five Children: Rick (Lynda), Helen (Bruce), Tamara, Tom (Lisa), and John (Sandy). They have 24 Grand children and 15 Great Grandchildren so far.