Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Holbrook, Frank April 1919
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The Carson City Gazette, Friday, April 25, 1919
Frank Holbrook, forty-six years employee, found dead in chair at his home, 
served long period as printer, later entered the paper’s proof room.

Frank Holbrook was working Tuesday night.  Forty-six years he had done the 
same thing.  Forty years his evening symphony was the same whether of 
unmusical sound that to him had become a loved nocturne.  He had seen proof 
readers come and go.  Wednesday night another man was in Holbrook’s chair in 
the proof room; the veteran was gone.

He was found dead of heart trouble, with a book in his lap, at his home, 104 
Harmon Ave., Wednesday afternoon.  Frank H. Holbrook was a printer on the 
Detroit Free Press forty-six years in all that period, except for an 
experimental and unhappy week, he was a night worker.  While the city jazzed 
and laughed and the incandescent sky line twinkled he penciled proof.  For him 
to have seen the City Hall without lamp light yellowing its face would have 
been unnatural.  When the cabaret lights went out and the habitués went home 
he was still hunting remissions in type setting.

Mr. Holbrook was 67 years old.  He was born in Oakam, Mass., learning the 
printing business in Toledo, and joined the Detroit Free Press staff in 1873.  
He worked at case for years, later operating a machine and a few years ago to 
read proof.  He won a host of friends.

Dead in chair.  Death came unexpectedly.  He worked Tuesday night when he got 
up Wednesday noon he complained slight of stomach trouble and visited a 
doctor.  His wife was away when he returned.  When she reached the house he 
was dead.

Besides his widow he leaves one son, Francis H., one daughter, Mrs. Fred 
Turney, both of this city and three sisters, Mrs. Marie Robinson, San Diego, 
Cal., Mrs. Kate Wheeler, Portland, Org., and Mrs. Fred Ladue, Bellflower, 
Cal.  Funeral services were held in Detroit and the body was taken to 
Hubbardston, Michigan for interment.


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