Emily I Hearne Brooks Cooksey (1890-1972)

Emily I Hearne Brooks Cooksey

Birth

9 Mar 1890

Bucksnort, Dallas County, Arkansas, USA

Death

23 Feb 1972 (aged 81)

Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA

Burial

Westlawn Memorial Park

Borger, Hutchinson County, Texas, USA Add to Map

Plot

Garden of Beatitudes B Lot 103 Sp 1

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Funeral services for Mrs. Emily I. Cooksey, the former Mrs. J.C. Brooks, 81, of 906 Parkway, are pending at Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Home.

Mrs. Cooksey died early this morning at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo. She had been a resident of Borger for the past 30 years.

Survivors include two sons, John P. Brooks of Phillips, Thomas Brooks, of Dumas; seven daughters, Virgie Brooks of Dallas, Mrs. Dale Standridge of Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. L.L. Irvin of Harlingen, Mrs. Carl York of Oxnard, Calif., Mrs. Leo Reaves of Porterville, Calif., Mrs. Floyd Simpson of Marysville, Calif., Mrs. H.M. Darden of Jasper; three brothers, Brady Hearn of Bountiful, Utah, Ed and Quitman Hearn of Fordyce, Ark.; two sisters, Mrs. Ann Surpetz and Mrs. Onie Peters, both of Fordyce, Ark.; 23 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.

(Published in Borger News Herald, February 23, 1972)

Funeral services for Mrs. Emily I. Cooksey, the former Mrs. J.C. Brooks, 81, of 906 Parkway, will be at 2 p.m. Friday from Ed Brown & Sons Chapel of the Fountains with the Rev. G.W. Fine, pastor of the East Side Baptist Church, officiating.

Interment will follow in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Cooksey died early Wednesday morning at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo.

Survivors include two sons, seven daughters, three brothers, two sisters, 23 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.

Casketbearers will be Jimmy Ruppanner, Wayne Linville, William McCauley, Ora L. Frakes, Skyler Aynes, Tommy Stewart.

Honorary casketbearers will be the welders and co-workers at the Borger Refinery.

(Published in Borger News Herald, February 24, 1972)