Beckham Co. - Obit for Jack Shadid Brooks

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Jack Shadid Brooks

LUBBOCK - Jack Shadid Brooks, 51, died Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004.

Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. today in St. John's United Methodist Church
in Lubbock with the Rev. Kathryn Boren officiating. Private burial will be in
East Mound Cemetery in Matador by Rix Funeral Directors.

Mr. Brooks was born June 6, 1952, in Elk City, Okla., the son of the late Jack
D. and LaWanda Brooks. Shad graduated from Brownfield High School in 1970 and
earned his BA from Texas Tech University in 1974. He married Brigid Barton on
Feb. 26, 1987, in Lubbock. Shad was co-owner of Contractors Choice Supply in
Lubbock. Among his many activities, he was a member of Phi Delta Theta, a Master
Mason, a Silver Spur Sponsor of Boys Ranch and a scholarship donor to the Red
Raider Club.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Erin Stevens and husband, Donovan,
and Lindsay Saunders and husband, Jamie, all of Houston; a son, Shilo Brooks of
Lubbock; two granddaughters, Meagan and Anna Saunders, both of Houston; a
brother, Shannon Brooks and wife, Tracie, of Amarillo; a nephew, Shane Brooks of
Amarillo; a niece, Analisa Brooks of Amarillo; and a host of dear family and
friends.

Bundy H. Campbell, Mike Chism, Danny Harrelson, Pat Hickman, Johnny Lutrick and
Vernie Moore will serve as pallbearers.

The family suggests memorials be to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486,
Houston, TX 77210-4486; or Hospice of Lubbock, 1102 Slide Road, Suite 3,
Lubbock, TX 79416.

Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 17, 2004