Pleasant Holbrook
Stroke Fatal To Widely Known Paintsville Citizen
Funeral services were held Tuesday, July 18, for Pleasant Tilden Holbrook, who died at his home last Friday following a stroke a few days previously.
Mr. Holbrook was born November 7, 1876 and passed away July 14, 1944, age 67 years, 8 months, and 7 days. He was the son of Lorenzo Dow Holbrook and Emily Holbrook of Red Bush, Ky. He was the oldest of a family of four sons born of this union: Prof. Campbell Scotland Holbrook, Paris, Ky., Alonzo Holbrook, Ashland, Ky., and James Hargis Holbrook, deceased. His mother died when he was ten years old, and later, his father married Phoebe Pennington. To this union were born four brothers: John H. Holbrook, and Morton Holbrook, Red Bush, Ky., and Charles Wilson Holbrook and Bryan Holbrook, deceased; and four sisters: Mrs. Earl Auxier, Manilla, Ky., Mrs. Howard Schuff, Ashland, Mrs. Hatler Johnson, Paintsville, Ky., Mrs. Ollie Fyffe, Red Bush, Ky. He was married to Carrie M. Bailey of Red Bush, Ky., April 16, 1902. To this union was born one son, Fred Burgess Holbrook, of Paintsville, Ky. His wife died July 1, 1909 and on April 16, 1916, he was married to Miss Gertrude Auxier to which union was born one son, James Hargis Holbrook, deceased.
He spent the early years of his life at Red Bush, Ky., the place of his birth. He was educated in the schools of Johnson County, and taught school five years in Johnson and Morgan counties.
He was a merchant and the postmaster at Red Bush for fifteen years. After the death of his first wife he retired from the post office and the mercantile business and went on the road as a traveling salesman for 25 years until he retired because of impaired health. He was a successful salesman and business man, and during the later years of his business career he helped to organize the Ohio Valley Coffee Corporation of Portsmouth, Ohio. He was a stockholder and a director in that corporation until his death. After his retirement from active business he became interested in the civic and school affairs of his town. He served eight years on the city school board of Paintsville, and he was a member of the board at the time of his death. Several years before his death he made a profession of the Christian faith.
He had a keen distinction between right and wrong, and was uncompromising in upholding the right as he saw and understood it. He loved his home and his family with high devotion.
Loyalty to his convictions, his home, and family and friends was the notable attribute of his character.
ŠPaintsville Herald
July 20, 1944