Brent Stephen Harven was born in the midst of World War II, on his maternal grandfather’s birthday. His paternal family was from Czechoslovakia. He inherited his father’s startlingly, beautiful eyes. He was also, literally, the smartest person I have ever met. Tests measured his intelligence quotient at a little over 200.
Brent’s father was a foreman/supervisor for Firestone Tires in Trenton, Michigan. Each year Firestone awarded to the child of an employee, one all-expenses-paid college scholarship to the winner’s college of choice. Brent won the scholarship and chose The University of Michigan, but academics were not to be the fount of his future. He attended for 1 year then gave the scholarship back. He told me it was a “party school,” though The University Hospital was to play a role in his later life.
Brent enlisted in the army and served in post-war Korea where he met his wife, Pokyon An. The army refused to help them but the couple was not deterred. They married and Brent went home without her when the army discharged him. He sent for her and she travelled alone on a 10,000-mile journey, though she spoke no English at the time. There would be no going home if she was mistaken in her decision. Her family held her funeral when she left Korea. She had not been mistaken. Brent and Yon remained married until his death.
Brent developed lung cancer at an early age. Hospice care was in its early days in 1993, but Brent did not want to die in the hospital. The University of Michigan Hospital released him and he went home to Lincoln Park where he died shortly thereafter, at the age of 49, surrounded by his wife, parents, brother, and even a cousin.
Brent and Yon had one daughter who is still living. Their daughter was the mother of two girls, one of whom died in a car accident in April 2016. Her grave is adjacent to her grandfather, just to the left. Her Memorial is # 160632300. I believe that though we miss her desperately, she is now tipping a jar and laughing with her grandfather.
Brent’s father was a foreman/supervisor for Firestone Tires in Trenton, Michigan. Each year Firestone awarded to the child of an employee, one all-expenses-paid college scholarship to the winner’s college of choice. Brent won the scholarship and chose The University of Michigan, but academics were not to be the fount of his future. He attended for 1 year then gave the scholarship back. He told me it was a “party school,” though The University Hospital was to play a role in his later life.
Brent enlisted in the army and served in post-war Korea where he met his wife, Pokyon An. The army refused to help them but the couple was not deterred. They married and Brent went home without her when the army discharged him. He sent for her and she travelled alone on a 10,000-mile journey, though she spoke no English at the time. There would be no going home if she was mistaken in her decision. Her family held her funeral when she left Korea. She had not been mistaken. Brent and Yon remained married until his death.
Brent developed lung cancer at an early age. Hospice care was in its early days in 1993, but Brent did not want to die in the hospital. The University of Michigan Hospital released him and he went home to Lincoln Park where he died shortly thereafter, at the age of 49, surrounded by his wife, parents, brother, and even a cousin.
Brent and Yon had one daughter who is still living. Their daughter was the mother of two girls, one of whom died in a car accident in April 2016. Her grave is adjacent to her grandfather, just to the left. Her Memorial is # 160632300. I believe that though we miss her desperately, she is now tipping a jar and laughing with her grandfather.
Brent Stephen Harven was born in the midst of World War II, on his maternal grandfather’s birthday. His paternal family was from Czechoslovakia. He inherited his father’s startlingly, beautiful eyes. He was also, literally, the smartest person I have ever met. Tests measured his intelligence quotient at a little over 200.
Brent’s father was a foreman/supervisor for Firestone Tires in Trenton, Michigan. Each year Firestone awarded to the child of an employee, one all-expenses-paid college scholarship to the winner’s college of choice. Brent won the scholarship and chose The University of Michigan, but academics were not to be the fount of his future. He attended for 1 year then gave the scholarship back. He told me it was a “party school,” though The University Hospital was to play a role in his later life.
Brent enlisted in the army and served in post-war Korea where he met his wife, Pokyon An. The army refused to help them but the couple was not deterred. They married and Brent went home without her when the army discharged him. He sent for her and she travelled alone on a 10,000-mile journey, though she spoke no English at the time. There would be no going home if she was mistaken in her decision. Her family held her funeral when she left Korea. She had not been mistaken. Brent and Yon remained married until his death.
Brent developed lung cancer at an early age. Hospice care was in its early days in 1993, but Brent did not want to die in the hospital. The University of Michigan Hospital released him and he went home to Lincoln Park where he died shortly thereafter, at the age of 49, surrounded by his wife, parents, brother, and even a cousin.
Brent and Yon had one daughter who is still living. Their daughter was the mother of two girls, one of whom died in a car accident in April 2016. Her grave is adjacent to her grandfather, just to the left. Her Memorial is # 160632300. I believe that though we miss her desperately, she is now tipping a jar and laughing with her grandfather.
Brent’s father was a foreman/supervisor for Firestone Tires in Trenton, Michigan. Each year Firestone awarded to the child of an employee, one all-expenses-paid college scholarship to the winner’s college of choice. Brent won the scholarship and chose The University of Michigan, but academics were not to be the fount of his future. He attended for 1 year then gave the scholarship back. He told me it was a “party school,” though The University Hospital was to play a role in his later life.
Brent enlisted in the army and served in post-war Korea where he met his wife, Pokyon An. The army refused to help them but the couple was not deterred. They married and Brent went home without her when the army discharged him. He sent for her and she travelled alone on a 10,000-mile journey, though she spoke no English at the time. There would be no going home if she was mistaken in her decision. Her family held her funeral when she left Korea. She had not been mistaken. Brent and Yon remained married until his death.
Brent developed lung cancer at an early age. Hospice care was in its early days in 1993, but Brent did not want to die in the hospital. The University of Michigan Hospital released him and he went home to Lincoln Park where he died shortly thereafter, at the age of 49, surrounded by his wife, parents, brother, and even a cousin.
Brent and Yon had one daughter who is still living. Their daughter was the mother of two girls, one of whom died in a car accident in April 2016. Her grave is adjacent to her grandfather, just to the left. Her Memorial is # 160632300. I believe that though we miss her desperately, she is now tipping a jar and laughing with her grandfather.
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