In Memory

Laura Jo Brookhart

Laura Jo Brookhart

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 2, 1999, in First Presbyterian Church of McMinnville, Oregon for Laura-Jo (Brookhart) Holt, who died April 30, 1999 of lung cancer at age 55.

Mrs. Holt was born Sept. 4, 1943, in Prescott, AZ. Her maiden name was Brookhart. She was a 1961 graduate of Central High School in Grand Forks, ND and a graduate of Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon. She had lived in the Portland area since 1978.

A homemaker, she was a Master Gardener and served as vice president of the Oregon Master Gardeners Association. She was a member of the church and recently became an oblate of Queen of Angels Monastery in Mount Angel. She married Jon Holt in 1962.

Survivors include her husband; daughter, Abigail Hodge of Bloomington, Ind.; son, Joel of Newberg, OR; sister, Nancy Washburn of Grand Forks, ND; brother, Warren of Tyndall Air Force Base, FL; and two grandchildren.