Kate Holbrook, a historian and writer who worked in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Church History Department as the managing historian of women’s history, has passed away.

Her husband, Sam Brown, broke the news of her death this morning.

Who Is Kate Holbrook?

Kate Holbrook was born in Santa Barbara, California, and six weeks later her father abandoned her.

Holbrook’s mother later moved to Utah, where she attended school.

Holbrook and her husband, Samuel Brown, have three daughters.

From 1993 to 1994, she served as an LDS Church missionary in Samara, Russia.

She died in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Holbrook received degrees from Brigham Young University and Harvard Divinity School.

Boston University awarded her a PhD in religion and society.

Holbrook received the first Eccles Fellowship in Mormon Studies from the University of Utah.

She was named Harvard College’s Teaching Fellow of the Year.

Kate grew up near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and is thrilled to be back there, surrounded by the historic sites, cultural currents, and food environments that inspired her scholarship.

She graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Russian literature and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard.

Brigham Young University, Harvard Divinity School, and Boston University, as well as a Master of Theological Studies and a Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies.

Her dissertation work on Latter-day Saint and Nation of Islam foodways earned her the first Eccles Fellowship in Mormon Studies at the University of Utah.

She and her husband, Samuel Brown, lived in Salt Lake City and have three children.

What was Kate Holbrook‘s cause of death?

According to her obituary, she passed away from a “rare cancer of the eye.” On Saturday, Sam Brown, her husband, shared the news that she had passed away on social media.

Obituary And Burial Arrangements

NAME OF MORTUARY

KATE HOLBROOK OBITUARY Larkin Mortuary, Salt Lake City, 260 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah

Kate Holbrook, born on January 13, 1972, passed away on August 20, 2022, due to complications from a rare form of eye cancer that had been slowly killing her for the previous decade.

We miss her so much and are filled with happiness because she was in our lives. Kate Stewart Holbrook was born to parents Kathleen Stewart and Robert Holbrook in the utter chaos that was the early 1970s in Santa Barbara, California. Kate was raised in Provo, Utah by her mother and her grandmother, Belle Fillmore Stewart.

She graduated from Brigham Young University and served a Church mission in Samara, Russia before relocating to Boston because she had enjoyed a rainy afternoon there when she was 13 years old.

There she worked at Boston University, earned her Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and started work on her doctorate in Religious Studies.

Then she met and wed Sam Brown. They were in their mid-30s when they made the decision to move back to Utah because they knew they belonged in the mountains.

Amelia, Lucia, and Persephone Holbrook-Brown are the three wonderful children they’ve raised. While living in Utah, Kate began working for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a historian of Latter-day Saint women after she (remotely) completed her doctorate.

Numerous books, articles, and other works reflecting her thoughtfulness and compassion were edited or written by her. In her research, she focused on how food ties into different religious traditions.

Kate cared deeply about people and the world around her. She had an insatiable appetite for literature and an exceptionally empathetic disposition.

Her childhood love of Out of Africa inspired her to finally make it to Kenya in her final year on Earth. Everything about her radiated the literary possibilities of East African tales and Karen Blixen.

Kate had an undying devotion to Christ. She radiated the spirit of God and the Gospel from every pore. She felt privileged to head up groups that shared the Latter-day Saint story with the world and the experiences of women within the faith with their male counterparts.

It wasn’t that she didn’t believe in an afterlife as she mournfully considered her own death. She was instead saddened by the fact that she was no longer a physical part of her loved ones’ everyday lives on earth. Both the comforting knowledge that death is not the end of us and the crushing sorrow of a life cut too short were in her hands and her heart.

Her grandparents and parents both passed away before her, as did countless generations of ancestors she remembered through her research.

Those who stay behind are now sacred thanks to her legacy and her unyielding presence. On Saturday, August 27 at 11 a.m., funeral services will be held at the Bonneville Stake Center, located at 1535 Bonneview Drive in Salt Lake City.
The night before, from 5 to 7 p.m., there will be a viewing at the Larkin mortuary, located at 260 E. South Temple in Salt Lake City. Like her passion for food, Kate’s for flowers was intense. She requests that in lieu of flowers, well-wishers make contributions to the Kate Holbrook Endowed Scholarship Fund at BYU for primary caregivers of young children pursuing graduate study in the humanities.

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