Kay County OK Obit for: Thomas Walter Brookshire Jr.

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Date submitted: 9/29/2002
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Sept. 5, 2002 Stillwater News Press

Thomas Brookshire


Thomas Walter Brookshire Jr., died Sunday, Sept. 1, 2002.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Central Baptist Church with
Rev. John Waterloo officiating. Burial followed in the Resthaven Park Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel.

Brookshire was the son of Thomas Walter Brookshire Sr. and Lula Bear Brookshire
of Cushing. They were longtime dairy farmers and a had a strong Christian
influence to their nine children. Brookshire was the baby of the family.

He met Nancy Emma Turpen on summer as she was visiting her hometown, Cushing. He
was convinced she was the love of his life and followed her to Vega, Texas, the
year he graduated with honors from Cushing High School. Brookshire refused to
leave her yard until she agreed to marry him Nov. 9, 1940; they were together
for 59 years until her death in 1999.

He and his wife lived in Los Angeles, Calif., during his service in the Army
during World War II. They returned to live in the Cushing area near his family,
then briefly lived in McPherson, Kan., before making their home in Ponca City
and raising their family.

Brookshire was an excellent provider for his family and his jobs over the years
included Conoco, where he gauged tanks; Ponca City Water and Light Company;
maintenance at Lakeside Golf Course; and a lawn business with his sons.

He drove the Sunday school bus for years. He went with fellow church members on
mission trips where he used his considerable skills to help build churches.


He had a quick ready smile, a strong handshake or a big bear hug for everyone.
Brookshire was a knowledgeable mechanic, skilled woodworker and an avid
gardener, with an orderly workshop. His grandchildren still enjoyed the hundreds
of small cars he collected to share with them and the scale model roads and city
he built.


He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, his five brothers, Bill,
John, Cecil, Carst and Ralf Brookshire; and two sisters, Deloris Massey and
Glendean Mercer.

Brookshire is survived by his sister, Opal Updegraft, Cushing; five children,
Tommy Ray Brookshire of the home, Phillip and wife Linda Brookshire, Ponca City,
Roy and wife Peggy Brookshire, Stillwater, Kenneth Brookshire, Grake, Colo., and
Glenda James, Red Rock; nine grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren, Carlo
Wayne and Roberta Bales and daughter Andrea, Piper and Ron Davis and children
Hannah, Cassi, Colin, Chad and Ronni, William and Ona Brookshire and daughter
Allison, Tiffany and Dewayne Givens and children Wesley, Kayla and Seth, Troy
Brookshire, Pallas and Paul Jenkins and children Quillan, Parker and Barrick,
Ti'la and Bruce Bailey, Tina James and Brian James and 12 nieces and nephews.

Casket bearers were Jerry Nash, Dewayne Givens, Frankie Daniels, Paul Jenkins,
Jamie Cowan and Bruce Bailey.


Memorial contributions may be made in Brookshire's name to Central Baptist
Church Children's Ministries, 618 E. Hartford, Ponca City, Okla. 74601.
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