Dr. Clarence Brooks died Saturday at his home with the jazz he loved playing in the background.
Dr. Clarence Jackson Brooks was born Oct. 22, 1950, the fourth child of Marion and Marie Brooks. He was born while his father was attending medical school at Howard University.
As a young teenager, Dr. Brooks worked as a janitor in his father's Fort Worth medical office but worked his way up to a desk job where he stayed until college. Like his father, Dr. Brooks attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and earned his medical degree when he was 24, the youngest student in his class, his wife, Sonya Brooks said.
Dr. Brooks joined his father's medical practice. He was also medical director at two nursing homes. His volunteer work included the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, Howard University and the American Heart Association. He had an open-door policy for high school students needing physicals for athletics.
The Rev. Jewel Granberry, associate pastor at Forest Hill Missionary Baptist Church, said he was a patient of Dr. Brooks and of his father going back at least 50 years, he said.
"He was an excellent person and friend," Granberry said. "He would always talk to us about our family and old times." Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks described his brother as a "gentle soul who always put his patients first."
Dr. Brooks was a "Renaissance man" who loved reading, collecting Harlem Renaissance artists and jazz, including musicians Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Roy Brooks said.
Their father taught his children the importance of community service, Roy Brooks said. "My father always said that service is the rent that you pay for the air that you breathe," Roy Brooks said. "My brother paid an awful lot of rent."
Other survivors include daughters Leigh Brooks Butler and Codie Brooks; sisters Marian Bryant, Carol Brooks and Marie Anne Washington; and two grandsons.
Dr. Clarence Jackson Brooks was born Oct. 22, 1950, the fourth child of Marion and Marie Brooks. He was born while his father was attending medical school at Howard University.
As a young teenager, Dr. Brooks worked as a janitor in his father's Fort Worth medical office but worked his way up to a desk job where he stayed until college. Like his father, Dr. Brooks attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and earned his medical degree when he was 24, the youngest student in his class, his wife, Sonya Brooks said.
Dr. Brooks joined his father's medical practice. He was also medical director at two nursing homes. His volunteer work included the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, Howard University and the American Heart Association. He had an open-door policy for high school students needing physicals for athletics.
The Rev. Jewel Granberry, associate pastor at Forest Hill Missionary Baptist Church, said he was a patient of Dr. Brooks and of his father going back at least 50 years, he said.
"He was an excellent person and friend," Granberry said. "He would always talk to us about our family and old times." Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks described his brother as a "gentle soul who always put his patients first."
Dr. Brooks was a "Renaissance man" who loved reading, collecting Harlem Renaissance artists and jazz, including musicians Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Roy Brooks said.
Their father taught his children the importance of community service, Roy Brooks said. "My father always said that service is the rent that you pay for the air that you breathe," Roy Brooks said. "My brother paid an awful lot of rent."
Other survivors include daughters Leigh Brooks Butler and Codie Brooks; sisters Marian Bryant, Carol Brooks and Marie Anne Washington; and two grandsons.
Dr. Clarence Brooks died Saturday at his home with the jazz he loved playing in the background.
Dr. Clarence Jackson Brooks was born Oct. 22, 1950, the fourth child of Marion and Marie Brooks. He was born while his father was attending medical school at Howard University.
As a young teenager, Dr. Brooks worked as a janitor in his father's Fort Worth medical office but worked his way up to a desk job where he stayed until college. Like his father, Dr. Brooks attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and earned his medical degree when he was 24, the youngest student in his class, his wife, Sonya Brooks said.
Dr. Brooks joined his father's medical practice. He was also medical director at two nursing homes. His volunteer work included the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, Howard University and the American Heart Association. He had an open-door policy for high school students needing physicals for athletics.
The Rev. Jewel Granberry, associate pastor at Forest Hill Missionary Baptist Church, said he was a patient of Dr. Brooks and of his father going back at least 50 years, he said.
"He was an excellent person and friend," Granberry said. "He would always talk to us about our family and old times." Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks described his brother as a "gentle soul who always put his patients first."
Dr. Brooks was a "Renaissance man" who loved reading, collecting Harlem Renaissance artists and jazz, including musicians Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Roy Brooks said.
Their father taught his children the importance of community service, Roy Brooks said. "My father always said that service is the rent that you pay for the air that you breathe," Roy Brooks said. "My brother paid an awful lot of rent."
Other survivors include daughters Leigh Brooks Butler and Codie Brooks; sisters Marian Bryant, Carol Brooks and Marie Anne Washington; and two grandsons.
Dr. Clarence Jackson Brooks was born Oct. 22, 1950, the fourth child of Marion and Marie Brooks. He was born while his father was attending medical school at Howard University.
As a young teenager, Dr. Brooks worked as a janitor in his father's Fort Worth medical office but worked his way up to a desk job where he stayed until college. Like his father, Dr. Brooks attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and earned his medical degree when he was 24, the youngest student in his class, his wife, Sonya Brooks said.
Dr. Brooks joined his father's medical practice. He was also medical director at two nursing homes. His volunteer work included the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, Howard University and the American Heart Association. He had an open-door policy for high school students needing physicals for athletics.
The Rev. Jewel Granberry, associate pastor at Forest Hill Missionary Baptist Church, said he was a patient of Dr. Brooks and of his father going back at least 50 years, he said.
"He was an excellent person and friend," Granberry said. "He would always talk to us about our family and old times." Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks described his brother as a "gentle soul who always put his patients first."
Dr. Brooks was a "Renaissance man" who loved reading, collecting Harlem Renaissance artists and jazz, including musicians Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Roy Brooks said.
Their father taught his children the importance of community service, Roy Brooks said. "My father always said that service is the rent that you pay for the air that you breathe," Roy Brooks said. "My brother paid an awful lot of rent."
Other survivors include daughters Leigh Brooks Butler and Codie Brooks; sisters Marian Bryant, Carol Brooks and Marie Anne Washington; and two grandsons.
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