Obit of Dessie J. Brooks (b620) - Bryan County, Oklahoma Submitted by: C Colston 6 Dec 2003 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm +========================================================================+ USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm +========================================================================+ Transcriber Notice: Please note that I am only transcribing this information and do not have any affiliation with this family. Survivors omitted. Thursday, November 20, 2003 Durant Daily Democrat Dessie J. Brooks, 93 A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Highland Cemetery for Dessie J. Brooks, 93, LaFayette, La., who died Monday, Nov. 17, 2003, in LaFayette. She was born Friday, April 1, 1910, in Wills Point, Texas, to Robert Daniel and Eddie Murs (McMillen) Haley. She married Wilbur Lester Brooks, Sept. 23, 1931. She was a former member of the Mead Church of Christ. She was a homemaker who loved to fish and farm. She enjoyed her family and loved kids, even volunteering at the hospital, taking care of the babies. She will be best remembered for her generous nature. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband in 1975; son Bobby Brooks, brothers Lee, R.D. and Jake Haley, and sisters Lottie Dixon, Mary Guinn, Ruby Freeman and Dorothy Armstrong. Coffey-Murray Funeral Home is handling arrangements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm