Obit of Brooks, Stella Fern [Givens] Riggs Fox (b620) - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 19 Aug 2004 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== The Bakersfield Californian 18 August 2004 STELLA FERN FOX 11/30/1935 - 8/16/2004 Stella Fern Fox, 68, unexpectedly passed away August 16, 2004, at her residence in Bakersfield. Stella Fern was born to Jesse and Stella Givens on November 30, 1935 in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the youngest of eight children. She spent her youth and all of her adult life in Bakersfield. She married Bob Riggs in 1952 and raised two children, Bobby Lynn and David Hoyt. David died in 1978. She married Tony Fox in 1974 and they enjoyed ten years together, until his death in 1984. She married Rowan Brooks in 1986. She and Rowan have relished their 18 years together, melding their lives and loves together. Rowan has two daughters, Carole and Jinee, whom she dearly loved and Jinee produced two grandsons for her to enjoy, Christopher and Timothy. She leaves to mourn her passing and grieve the loss of her presence her husband, Rowan Brooks. Her only surviving child, Bobby Scrivner and her husband, Stanley. Her "only chick of her only chick," her granddaughter, Stacy Grens and her husband, Ray. Her sister, Geneva Jo Nunes of San Leandro and her brother, James D. Givens of Orange Cove. There are dark pages in our lives where we would gladly have changed the story if we could. There are wounds that still ache, and losses that even yet are hard to bear. But however we may feel about the sorrow, there are few of us who would be willing to give up all that it has brought and taught us, or to be just where we were before it touched us. There are profound gains that come only through sorrow's gate. A wake is being planned for a future, as yet undetermined, date when we can come together and remember . . . . -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html