Washington Co., AR - Obituaries - Janet Brooks Basham Tooker

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Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
February 3, 1998

FAYETTEVILLE– Janet Basham-Tooker, 78, of Fayetteville died Feb. 2, 1998,
at Fayetteville. Arrangements are pending at Moore's Chapel of
Fayetteville.
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Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
February 4, 1998

FAYETTEVILLE – 

Janet Brooks Basham-Tooker, 78, of Fayetteville died Feb. 2,
1998, at Fayetteville. She was born Sept. 27, 1919, in Hampton. She grew up
in the Chesapeake Bay region near Newport News, Va. She received a literary
diploma from Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Va. She was a former
president of Phi Theta Kappa and had received the Margaret Noffsinger
Award, given annually to the most outstanding student. She graduated cum
laude with an A.B. degree in psychology from the University of North
Carolina in Greensboro. She attended 12 different colleges and universities
and had been listed in "Who's Who in American Women," " Who's Who in
America," and "Who's Who in Science and Engineering." She was preceded in
death by her husbands, Linwood Cecil Basham and Frederick F. Tooker. She
moved to Butterfield Trail Village in 1992 from California.
Survivors include two brothers, Warren Brooks of Clemmons, N.C., and Lewis
Brooks of Burlingame, Calif.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Butterfield Trail Village
Convocation Room under the direction of Moore's Chapel of Fayetteville. The
Rev. Leslie Belden and the Rev. John F. Burhorn will officiate.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 40,
Fayetteville, 72702-0040.