Brooks, Albert William 1900 - 1959

BROOKS, TIMMER, ROBBINS, KAHLE, KLING, BALMER, EHLER, KOPPIN

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Brooks, Albert William 1900 - 1959
The Newton Daily News, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa
Thursday, February 19, 1959

Albert Brooks, 58, Kellogg Farmer, Dies Wednesday

Albert William Brooks, 58, lifetime resident of the Kellogg area, died Wednesday evening at a Marshalltown hospital.

Mr. Brooks was a farmer living northeast of Kellogg and was a well known breeder of Hereford cattle for the past 10 years.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Kellogg with the Rev. Lloyd Dobroth officiating. Johnson Funeral Home will be in charge.

Survivors are his wife, Bertha; two daughters, Mrs. Albert (Helen) Timmer, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Mrs. Gilmore (Frances) Robbins Jr., Kellogg; four sisters, Mrs. Louis Kahle, Kearney, Neb., Mrs. Louis Kling, Newton, and Mrs. John Balmer and Mrs. Edward Ehler, both of Kellogg; two brothers, Michael Brooks, and Ernest Brooks, Kellogg; and five granddaughters.

He married Bertha Koppin March 9, 1921 at Newton. He was educated in Jasper County Schools and Kellogg High School.

The deceased was a charter member of the Grange and was township assessor for 14 years.

Burial will be at Newton Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

Note: Albert William Brooks was born 16 September 1900, and died 18 February 1959.