UPSON COUNTY, GA - OBITS Clifton Brooks Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Fletcher Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Clifton Brooks Thomaston--Death claimed Clifton Brooks, age 72, of 205 Cobbtown Road, on Sunday morning, 1978, at the Upson County hospital. Funeral services were held Monday a t 4:00 p.m. from the Smyrna Baptist Church with the Rev. James Grier officiating. Burial was in the Smyrna Cemetery. Coggins Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mr. Brooks was a native of Geneva, Ala. but had lived in Upson County for 56 years. He was a retired employee (carpenter) for the B.F. Goodrich Company. He was a member of East Thomaston Lodge No. 175 F. & A.M. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Lou Brooks, Thomaston, a daughter, Mrs. Lazelle Coventry, Thomaston, three sons, Verlon Brooks, Carrollton, Billy L. and Roy R. Brooks, both of Warner Robins, two brother Fred Brooks of Geneva, Ala., and Malcolm Brooks, Gibson, Ga., four sisters, Mrs. Essie McGowen, Mrs. Myrtice Birch, Mrs. Marie Hinderson, Mrs. Dora Chrysler, all of Geneva, Ala., 13 grandchildren ? ( the rest was not printed)