BROOKS, Ollie P. (1877-1947)

BROOKS, STARNES, MELCHER, LUICK, OLSON

Posted By: Hancock Co Genealogical Society (email)
Date: 3/1/2019 at 11:33:14

O. P. Brooks, 70, Dies Of Illness

Services at Methodist Church Sunday at 2

Clear Lake - Ollie P. Brooks, 70, died at a local nursing home at 7:20 Friday morning following a 2 year illness. He entered the nursing home on Dec. 28, 1946, and except for one week in a Mason City hospital was cared for at that place. He made his home with his sister, Mrs. Joe Starnes, in Lincoln township.

Funeral services are tentatively planned for Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in Clear Lake. The Rev. James Miller, Bristow, formerly of Fertile, will conduct the rites with Rev. Warner M. Hubbard, local pastor, assisting. The Wilcox funeral chapel is in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in Amsterdam cemetery near Goodell.

Surviving are a son, Gerald I. Brooks, 317 S. 2nd street, and daughter, Mrs. C. E. Melcher, South Shore; two grandchildren, Mark and Linda Melcher; 3 sisters, Mrs. Starnes, Clear Lake; Mrs. Charles Luick, Mason City, and Mrs. Omar Olson, Belmond, and one brother, Harry Brooks, Madelia, Minn.

Ollie Perry Brooks was born on a farm near Goodell, the son of James and Elwy Brooks May 4, 1877. He grew to young manhood there and then farmed or himself in that vicinity and south of Clear Lake. He was married to Miss Lillian Etchen of near Klemme, moving to Clear Lake in 1916. In late years he worked at the Kinney ranch in Lincoln township as long as his health permitted.

source: Mason City Globe Gazette, 23 May 1947, page 7, column 6