Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Brooks, Thomas A., 1940
Monday, July 31, 2000

Submitted by:  burtwyat@ctesc.net  (Frederica Wyatt)
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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                               Thomas A. Brooks On December 24

  In the homegoing of Thomas A. Brooks at his home Tuesday evening, December 24,
Kimble county lost another one of her pioneer citizens.  He had not been feeling 
well for a few days, but no one knew the end was so near.  He retired as usual Tuesday
evening and was found dead in his bed on Christmas morning.  He had died peacefully
during the early part of the night.  Funeral arrangements were under the direction of
the Smith Funeral Home of Kerrville.  Funeral services were held at the Baptist Church
Wednesday afternoon with Rev. George B. McCrary, pastor of the Methodist Church officiating.  
Interment was made in the Junction cemetery.
  The following were active pall bearers:
  Jim Carpenter, J. W. McLendon, Roy Skaggs, Bennett Kindrick, Clay Secrest and B. R. Ragland.
  Thomas A. Brooks was born in Tarrant county January 26, 1862, lacking one month and two
days of being 79 years old at the time of his death.  When young the Brooks family moved to
Southwest Texas where Mr. Brooks was married to Miss Nettie Randle on January 26, 1896.
To this union were born three daughters and one son.  The son died in infancy.  He is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Nettie Brooks; three daughters, Miss Fannie Brooks, Mrs. Lottie Jones,
and Mrs. Mrs. Howell Whitsitt of San Angelo; one sister, Mrs. Maggie Collins of San Antonio;
four grandchildren Dorothy and Shirley Jones and Jeannette and Howell B. Whitsett of San
Angelo, and other relatives.
  When a young man Mr. Brooks united with the Baptist Church and lived the rest of his life
in that fellowship.  He was also a member of the Woodmen of the World for many years.
  He moved to Kimble county in 1900, settling near London.  In 1904 he moved to Junction
where he spent the rest of his life.
  Among the out-of-town relatives present at the funeral services were Mrs. Maggie Collins,
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hillock, Mrs. E. J. Riddick, all of San Antonio; Howell Whitsitt of San
Angelo, and Mrs. H. M. Randle of Sonora.
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