Georgia:  Decatur County:  Obituary of Marion Brooks
18 September 1957 

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The following Obituary appeared in the Post Searchlight Newspaper  
1957................

MARIAL BROOKS DIES;
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD WEDNESDAY


Funeral services for Marion Brooks, 73, of West Bainbridge was held at 
the West Bainbridge Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon,  September 18th 
(1957) at 4 p.m.  The Rev. R. C. Kale officiated and burial followed in 
the Oak City Cemetery with Ivey Funeral Home in charge of the 
arrangements.

Mr. Brooks died Tuesday, September 17th following an illness of several 
months.  He was a native of Dale County, Ala. And had resided here for 
the past 13 years.  He was a member of the West Bainbridge Methodist 
Church.

Survivors include his wife,   Mrs. Dorhie Bolton Brooks;  two sons, H. L. 
and H. J. Brooks of Bainbridge;  four daughters, Mrs. Lunnett Starling 
and Mrs. Martha Rogers of Bainbridge,  Mr. Inex Donn of Panama City, Fla. 
And Mrs. Mary Kennedy of Dothan, Ala;   one brother,  Angus Brooks of 
Westville, Fla;    three sisters, Mrs. Louvena  Lloyd of Albany,  Mrs. 
Pearl Simmons, Coffee County, Ala. and  Mrs. Leola  Madris of Ozark, Ala.  
Twenty-seven grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren also survive.

Active pallbearers were Edsel Brooks,   Walter Lloyd, W. E. Smith, 
Preston Brooks, Dallas Brooks and James Earl Starling.