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August 14, 2009

Holbrook services are this weekend

FROM STAFF REPORTS The Record Eagle Fri Aug 14, 2009, 07:30 AM EDT

BEULAH -- Funeral services for Michigan State Police Sgt. Melvin Holbrook are scheduled for this weekend.

Services with the state police honor guard are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the auditorium at Benzie Central High School. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Traverse City.

Visitation will be held at the school today from 5 to 8 p.m.

Holbrook, who worked as a desk sergeant at the Traverse City post, was shot and killed inside his home in Benzie County's Homestead Township at about 1 a.m. Monday. His wife, Joni K. Holbrook, is charged with an open count of murder and remains in jail without bond.

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