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Free view of holland sentinel obituaries2/19/2024 ![]() ![]() During his Christmas furlough he and Clara Rabbers were married on Dec. Soon he was sent to the Atlanta area for mechanic training where he spent 3 months. During his basic training at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, CO he found a Baptist church and began playing his saxophone on their Saturday night live radio broadcast. Don paid for the sax by gathering scrap iron along the railroad tracks and from farmers and taking it to Louis Padnos and Holland Home Furnace and his mother always had the biggest grin when she would hear him play.įollowing graduation from Holland High School in 1949, Don began driving truck for Van’s Super Market and/or working at Brewer’s City Coal Dock. He hurried home to show his mother but when she saw that he had charged it she said, “how do you ever expect to pay for this ($287.00)? You get in the barn!” and he got a spanking he never forgot and the rest is history. Fred Meyer said a saxophone would be better for him and he showed him a shiny new one. ![]() With that in mind, he went to Meyer Music Store to buy a trombone. But in his junior year he realized he could go to the games (free) if he was in the pep band. Don’s dad was the first in the neighborhood to get a tractor and waited a few months for the steel lug wheels to arrive.ĭuring his high school years there was no time for sports or extra activities. Since it was during the Depression and WWII money was tight and he often sold eggs door to door in Holland to raise money for the family. He grew up helping the family on the small dairy farm, plowing the fields with their horses (Bill and Prince). Brink, 92, was the first born of Henry E and Helene (Woordhuis) Brink at home in Fillmore, MI.
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