Miss Josephine Brooks Died Tuesday Morning
Miss Josephine Damon Brooks, formerly of 10 Abbott street, Wellesley, died early Tuesday morning at a rest home in South Natick after a long period of failing health. Born in Tyngsboro January 28, 1872, the daughter of Rev. Charles S. and Eleanor R. Converse Brooks, she moved to Wellesley with her parents in 1900. She was graduated from Fitchburg High School and Wellesley College, Class of 1895. Miss Brooks taught French at Mechanics High School of Boston and Dorchester High School for Girls, retiring from the latter school in 1942 after 25 years as a member of the staff. In recent years a considerable number of her short reflective poems appeared in the Boston Herald's "Top O' the Morning" column on the editorial page, while the Wellesley College Alumnae Magazine devoted its entire page of alumnae verse in one issue to a group of Miss Brooks' poems. She is survived by a brother, Charles Converse Brooks of Chicago, who came here to make the funeral arrangements; also by a niece, Miss Eleanor R. Brooks of Syracuse, N. Y., and a nephew, Frank A. Brooks of Oxford, Ohio. The latter two are the children of Mrs. Edwin M. Brooks, widow of the former Boston and Wellesley attorney who was a brother of Miss Brooks. Mrs. Brooks, who is the former Beatrice Allard of Wellesley, is head of the Department of Religion at Western College, Oxford, Ohio.
SOURCE: The Townsman, Wellesley, Mass., Thursday, October 4, 1951, p. 4
Miss Josephine Damon Brooks, formerly of 10 Abbott street, Wellesley, died early Tuesday morning at a rest home in South Natick after a long period of failing health. Born in Tyngsboro January 28, 1872, the daughter of Rev. Charles S. and Eleanor R. Converse Brooks, she moved to Wellesley with her parents in 1900. She was graduated from Fitchburg High School and Wellesley College, Class of 1895. Miss Brooks taught French at Mechanics High School of Boston and Dorchester High School for Girls, retiring from the latter school in 1942 after 25 years as a member of the staff. In recent years a considerable number of her short reflective poems appeared in the Boston Herald's "Top O' the Morning" column on the editorial page, while the Wellesley College Alumnae Magazine devoted its entire page of alumnae verse in one issue to a group of Miss Brooks' poems. She is survived by a brother, Charles Converse Brooks of Chicago, who came here to make the funeral arrangements; also by a niece, Miss Eleanor R. Brooks of Syracuse, N. Y., and a nephew, Frank A. Brooks of Oxford, Ohio. The latter two are the children of Mrs. Edwin M. Brooks, widow of the former Boston and Wellesley attorney who was a brother of Miss Brooks. Mrs. Brooks, who is the former Beatrice Allard of Wellesley, is head of the Department of Religion at Western College, Oxford, Ohio.
SOURCE: The Townsman, Wellesley, Mass., Thursday, October 4, 1951, p. 4
Miss Josephine Brooks Died Tuesday Morning
Miss Josephine Damon Brooks, formerly of 10 Abbott street, Wellesley, died early Tuesday morning at a rest home in South Natick after a long period of failing health. Born in Tyngsboro January 28, 1872, the daughter of Rev. Charles S. and Eleanor R. Converse Brooks, she moved to Wellesley with her parents in 1900. She was graduated from Fitchburg High School and Wellesley College, Class of 1895. Miss Brooks taught French at Mechanics High School of Boston and Dorchester High School for Girls, retiring from the latter school in 1942 after 25 years as a member of the staff. In recent years a considerable number of her short reflective poems appeared in the Boston Herald's "Top O' the Morning" column on the editorial page, while the Wellesley College Alumnae Magazine devoted its entire page of alumnae verse in one issue to a group of Miss Brooks' poems. She is survived by a brother, Charles Converse Brooks of Chicago, who came here to make the funeral arrangements; also by a niece, Miss Eleanor R. Brooks of Syracuse, N. Y., and a nephew, Frank A. Brooks of Oxford, Ohio. The latter two are the children of Mrs. Edwin M. Brooks, widow of the former Boston and Wellesley attorney who was a brother of Miss Brooks. Mrs. Brooks, who is the former Beatrice Allard of Wellesley, is head of the Department of Religion at Western College, Oxford, Ohio.
SOURCE: The Townsman, Wellesley, Mass., Thursday, October 4, 1951, p. 4
Miss Josephine Damon Brooks, formerly of 10 Abbott street, Wellesley, died early Tuesday morning at a rest home in South Natick after a long period of failing health. Born in Tyngsboro January 28, 1872, the daughter of Rev. Charles S. and Eleanor R. Converse Brooks, she moved to Wellesley with her parents in 1900. She was graduated from Fitchburg High School and Wellesley College, Class of 1895. Miss Brooks taught French at Mechanics High School of Boston and Dorchester High School for Girls, retiring from the latter school in 1942 after 25 years as a member of the staff. In recent years a considerable number of her short reflective poems appeared in the Boston Herald's "Top O' the Morning" column on the editorial page, while the Wellesley College Alumnae Magazine devoted its entire page of alumnae verse in one issue to a group of Miss Brooks' poems. She is survived by a brother, Charles Converse Brooks of Chicago, who came here to make the funeral arrangements; also by a niece, Miss Eleanor R. Brooks of Syracuse, N. Y., and a nephew, Frank A. Brooks of Oxford, Ohio. The latter two are the children of Mrs. Edwin M. Brooks, widow of the former Boston and Wellesley attorney who was a brother of Miss Brooks. Mrs. Brooks, who is the former Beatrice Allard of Wellesley, is head of the Department of Religion at Western College, Oxford, Ohio.
SOURCE: The Townsman, Wellesley, Mass., Thursday, October 4, 1951, p. 4
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CHARLES SYLVESTER BROOKS
1840-1911
ORDAINED 1869
PASTOR IN TYNGSBORO, MASS.
SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS.
PUTNAM, CONN. FITCHBURG, MASS.
HIS WIFE
ELEANOR ROBINSON CONVERSE
1842-1922
1865 WALLACE LORENZO BROOKS 1870
1872 JOSEPHINE DAMON BROOKS 1951
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