Obit of Letha Elizabeth Brooks - Grady County, Oklahoma

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::Rush Springs Cemetery--Rush Springs OK

The Rush Springs Gazette 21 Dec 2000


                          Letha Elizabeth Brooks
    Letha Elizabeth Brooks, 90, died Thursday, December 14, 2000 in 
Marlow Manor Nursing Home, Marlow.
    Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, December 16 in the 
First Assembly of God Church of Rush Springs with Bro. Eugene Howeth 
officiating.  Music was by Sandra Page and Sonjia Dalrymple.  Burial 
was in Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of Callaway-Smith-Cobb 
Funeral Home.
    Mrs.  Brooks was born March 28, 1910, in Greenville, Texas, the 
daughter of Issiac Wilburn Cobb and Viola (Long) Cobb. She and Jack 
Douthit were married September.  27, 1924 in Duncan.  She preceded her 
in death.  She then married to Tom Brooks Oct 7, 1950, in Chickasha.  
He died October 19, 1977.
   She came to Oklahoma in 1913 in a covered wagon.  She attended 
Cement schools and was a resident of Rush Springs since 1955.  She 
was a retired home health care worker and a member of the First Assembly 
of God Church in Rush Springs.  She was preceded in death by two son, 
Jack Douthit and Paul Clifford Douthit; one brother, J D Cobb; and 
one sister, Eual Plowman. 
    Survivors include two sons, Melvin Douthit and his wife Jeanie of 
Rush Springs, and Thomas Lester Brooks, Jr and his wife Margaret of Ada; 
two daughters, Corene Swanson and Marlow and Lorene Alaniz and her husband 
E J of Marlow; A sister, Willie Mae Douthit of Rush Springs; 15 
grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; and 2 great great grandchildren.  
Pallbearers were Randall Harris, Mark Dalrymple, Billy Pittman, Gene 
Bratcher, Bill Page, Deon Duke, Honorary pallbearer, Jim Norton.
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