Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, Edward J. September 30, 1946
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot October 3, 1946

               E. J. Brooks, Negro Dies; Taxi Operator Since 1912

Edward J. Brooks, 60, Negro, one of Norfolk's oldest and best known taxi 
operators, died Monday at 6:45 p.m. Funeral services will be conducted at the 
B.F. King Funeral Home this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Calvary 
Cemetery.
Brooks came here early in life and has operated a cab since 1912, the last 20 
years at the Manhattan Taxi stand in the 600 block of East Brambleton Avenue. He 
owned his own cab.
Brooks was highly regarded among both the white and Negro races for his sunny 
disposition and friendliness. He was widely known as "Ed Brooks, the man who 
refused to die" as a result of having been shot twice in the back of the head by 
a passenger some years ago.  Brooks said he did not even know he had been hit 
until he felt blood running down his neck.
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Edward James Brooks - Funeral services for Mr. Brooks, 842 Monticello avenue, 
who died Sept. 30, were held Oct. 3 from King’s Funeral Chapel with the Rev. R. 
H. Bowling officiating.  Interment was in Calvary Cemetery with the King’s 
Funeral Home in charge.

Norfolk Journal and Guide, Oct 12,1946

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