Clara Belle (Stoops) Gregory Brooks (1903-1972)

STOOPS, GREGORY, BROOKS, MASON, SMIRL, KUHN, WINEINGER, WOODS, EVERDING, STOKESBARY, JOHNSON, CONRAD, IRWIN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Evening Journal January 8, 1972 (page 1)

Graveside rite at Cambridge for Mrs. Clara Brooks

Funeral services will be at the Fulton Funeral Home in Belmond Monday at 12:30 p.m. and graveside services at 3 p.m. at the Center Grove Cemetery at Cambridge for Mrs. Clara Brooks, 68, former Nevadan.

Mrs. Brooks died a the Belmond Nursing Home Friday at 5:15 a.m.

Survivors include her children: Mrs. Hilbert Mason of Belmond; Mrs. Charley Smirl of Pittsburg, Kansas; Mrs. Henry Kuhn and Mrs. Robert Wineinger of Nevada, Lyle Gregory of Houston, Tex., Virgil Gregory of Burbank, Calif.; Robert Gregory, Douglas Gregory, all of Waterloo; and James Gregory of Ft. Madison.

Also surviving are her mother, Mrs. Phrone Woods of Lawrence, Kas., her sisters, Mrs. Olive Gregory and Mrs. Hazel Everding, both of Nevada; Mrs. Effie Stokesbary of Colo, Mrs. Stella Johnson of Boone, Mrs. Blanche Conrad of Melcher and Mrs. Marjorie Irwin of Tucson, Ariz.; her brothers Howard Stoops of Boone, Charles Stoops of Denver, Albert Stoops of Nevada, and Milton Stoops of Ames; 22 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

Her husband, Finlay W. Brooks died in 1965.