Colette Holbrook Sheets

friends are celebrating my life as they grieve, because it was truly a wonderful voyage.

I was fortunate to be born in a quiet little town, Bountiful, Utah, on the side of a mountain very much like Colorado Springs. I also lived in Salt Lake City, but I spent my teen and college days in Long Beach, California. There I met and

married my wonderful husband, Bob Sheets from Downey, California. We moved to the Clear Lake area in Houston to

raise our family and be part of the Apollo Space Program. It was an exciting time and a thrill to be part of it. Our small

community was a Camelot. It had a population of highly-educated young families who had moved there from all over

the country. We shared a common goal of landing men on the moon. We also shared the lake, water skiing on Lake Travis outside Austin, being a Girl Scout leader, Little League, kids swim and diving teams and all the joys of raising our little family in a truly wonderful environment. It seems wherever we go, we find friends at church as well as in the neighbor-hood - close, enduring friendships.

Surprisingly, our move to Colorado Springs was more diverse by contrast. It was here in Colorado that we met and made

friends of all ages and professional backgrounds. Colorado is where I found my passion for the outdoors - hiking, skiing,

biking, travel and gardening. My garden is my palette.

With our children almost grown, my professional education expanded from a Masters to a PhD in Clinical Psychology. I restarted my private practice in Colorado Springs and pioneered an important movement to enhance psychotherapy to resolve past trauma. I learned and taught other professionals remarkably successful cutting edge techniques to

overcome PTSD.

I was President of the Psychological Society of the Pikes Peak Region, I counseled students at the University of the Rockies, and spent twenty-three very rewarding years at the Center for Creative Leadership coaching executives to become more effective leaders. We have had a thirty-year relationship with First United Methodist Church and its Kerygma class - our extended family. We recently went on a cruise to Greece with ten of them. It was the perfect "last hurrah" to have fun with these people I love before my illness took over.

I say goodbye to my best friend and perfect for me husband, Bob Sheets, my extraordinary children, Rob Sheets, Andrea

Sheets Bostick and Chris Sheets, and to son-in-law, Michael Bostick and daughter-in-law, Julie Sheets, and son Rob's fiancé, Lisa Wolf. I also say goodbye to my sisters, Gerri Collett, Roxey Ann Zadok and her husband Effie, and my brother, Randy Holbrook and his wife Shelley. I am survived by seven wonderful grandchildren, Stacey and Robbie Sheets, Dylan, Jordan and Ryan Bostick, and Cameron and Sean Sheets. We lived next door to my nephew, Jeff Collett and consider his children, Reuben, Camille and Max our "other" grandchildren.

I am predeceased by my father, Merrill Rampton Holbrook, my stepmother, Roxey Holbrook, my mother, Louise Foster

Stipac and her husband, Charles Stipac, sister, Merrillyn Driscoll, and also my grandparents, Mark and Sarah Holbrook

and Louis and Clara Foster.

If your heart is so moved, in lieu of flowers, consider my own preferred charities because they reflect my philosophy of the

value of a hand up: One Nation Walking Together, a Native American support program, Seeds Community Cafe, and the

mission programs of my beloved Kerygma Class at First United Methodist Church.

A traditional remembrance will be held at First United Methodist Church, 420 North Nevada Avenue in Colorado

Springs at 2:00 pm, Saturday, November 8, 2014.