Stanley Lucius Holbrook1

M, #27508, b. Nov 11, 1905, d. Apr 6, 2001
Father*Edwin Arthur Holbrook1 b. Jun 15, 1861, d. Oct 22, 1916
Mother*Elizabeth Eva McAllister1 b. Jan 5, 1880, d. Aug 30, 1930

Family

Gladys Ella Goodhue b. circa 1913
Children

Chronological Events

Birth*Nov 11, 1905 Stanley Lucius Holbrook was born on Nov 11, 1905 at Irasburg, Orleans County, Vermont, United States.1 
 He was the son of Edwin Arthur Holbrook and Elizabeth Eva McAllister.1 
Marriage*May 2, 1933 Stanley Lucius Holbrook married Gladys Ella Goodhue on May 2, 1933 at Barton, Orleans County, Vermont, United States.2,3 
Death*Apr 6, 2001 Stanley Lucius Holbrook died on Apr 6, 2001, at age 95 at Maple Lane Nursing Home, Barton, Orleans County, Vermont, United States.4 
ObituaryApr 8, 2001  OBITUARY: Stanley Lucius Holbrook, 95, a descendant of an old Vermont family, died Friday, April 6, 2001, at Maple Lane Nursing Home in Barton.
Mr. Holbrook lived in Newport for six decades before moving to Maple Lane in 1997. He was a veteran employee of the former United States Post Office Department, the forerunner of the present U.S. Postal Service. Entering the department in 1928, he worked in the old Railway Mail Service (RMS) for 34 years prior to retirement for disability in 1962. Railway postal clerks handled mail in special cars aboard passenger trains, sorting letters enroute for ultimate dispatch at way stations – ordinarily without the trains stopping – and picking up outgoing mail in the same expert way. The clerks, working alone, were armed for protection in light of the RMS history of holdups by bandits seeking valuable packages or registered mail among the more everyday letters, cards, newspapers, and Sears catalogs. During most of this period, almost all mail traveled by train.
In his RMS career he was based in five locations in four states, ranging from New York City, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Stamford, Connecticut, to White River Junction and, finally, Newport, where he served for nine years as a member of the Newport Zoning Board of Appeals. He brought his young family to Newport in 1938, five years after marrying Gladys Goodhue of Sherbrooke, Quebec, in Orleans on May 2, 1933, at the depth of the Great Depression.
He was born in Irasburg on November 11, 1905 (he later joked that his birthday was made a national holiday) and first lived on a farm near Irasburg that had been in the Holbrook family for generations. His parents were Edwin Arthur and Elizabeth McAllister Holbrook. He graduated from Barton Academy in 1923 at the age of 17. After studying at Burlington Business College he worked for General Electric in Schenectady, New York, and was also employed for four years as a tree surgeon in Winsted, Connecticut, before joining the government service.
Last year he visited Irasburg Village School, where his earliest education began, and was honored there by the eighth-grade graduating class as recipient of the Senior Citizen Award. When Principal Ken Hayes presented the award, he received a standing ovation and reminisced for the pupils' benefit about his long life. He told them he'd been "a hard-working man."
The Holbrooks were parents of two daughters and a son: Rosemary Holbrook Fogg and her husband, Dick, of Seeley Lake, Montana, Roger Holbrook and his companion, Kathy Karlsen, of Binghamton, New York, and Margaret Holbrook Ross and her husband, Jim, of Hinesburg. Fourteen grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, and five great-great grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 10, at St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Newport with the Reverend Leopold Bilodeau celebrating a Mass of Christian Burial.
Spring interment will take place in Irasburg Cemetery.

Information was provided from an unknown source.5
 
Burial*Apr 10, 2001 He was buried on Apr 10, 2001 at Irasburg Cemetery, Irasburg, Orleans County, Vermont, United States, Find A Grave Memorial# 148375442
Plot: 428, Row Wa 15.6 

Citations

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  2. [S517] Census 1940 - United States Federal.
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  4. [S4094] Vermont - Death Record, online at Ancestry.com.
  5. [S19] Obituary - Online, Newspaper or Funeral Home.
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