Mildred (Hargrove) Holbrook (1920 - 2003)

Born 24 Feb 1920 in Haywood County, NC

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Died 25 Dec 2003 at age 83 in Buncombe County, NC

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Biography

Mildred Hargrove "Granny" Holbrook, 83, of Candler, died Thursday, December 25, 2003, at the Hospice Solace Center.

Mrs. Holbrook was born in Haywood County and was a daughter of the late James Burton and Maggie Shook Evans Hargrove. She was also preceded in death by a son, Larry "Doby" Holbrook, who died January 5, 2000, two sisters Nannie Hargrove Smathers and Jimmie Hargrove Jones, half-brother Roy Evans and a half-sister Lois Kinsland. She had lived in Buncombe County for most of her life and was a member of Oak Hill United Methodist Church. She was a star basketball player at Bethel High School and at American Enka Corp. Industrial League.

She started working in 1938 at American Enka and retired in 1982 as manager of the Enka Credit Union. The loving matriarch of our family, she enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, wildlife, flowers and reading.

She is survived by her husband, Robert Cole Holbrook; one daughter, Cathey H. Drye and her husband David of Matthews; three sons, Jim Holbrook and his wife Pat of Arden, Tommy Holbrook of Arden and Bill Holbrook and his wife Earlene of the Bethel Community in Haywood County; a sister, Ellen Woody of Canton; ten grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

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