Miriam T. Brooks' Obituary
BROOKS, MIRIAM ‘MIMI’ POWELL Born August 20, 1922 in Cyrene, GA to Lamar Powell and Cleta Scheffer and passed away May 23, 2008 in Dallas, TX. The oldest of 3 sisters, she grew up in Bainbridge, GA keeping many lifelong friends. She met and married Gordon Brooks on December 20, 1941 and embarked on a highly mobile Air Force life from Montgomery, AL to New Delhi, India to Nebraska and Germany. Mimi was the model Air Force Officer wife maintaining and moving their home and sons around the world. She was a beloved daughter, sister and wife and an awesome mother grandmother and mother-in-law. She is preceded in death by her parents, Lamar and Cleta Powell; husband, J.G. Brooks, Sr.; sister, Ruth and an infant son. She is survived by sons and daughters-in-law; James G. Brooks, Jr. and wife, Barbara, Lamar Powell Brooks and wife, Kristi; daughter-in-law, Carol Brooks; grandchildren, James Gordon Brooks III and wife, Allison, Elizabeth Lee Brooks, Christopher Charles Brooks and wife, Ashley, Amanda Lauren Brooks, Julie Ann Brooks and William Tyler Brooks; great grandchildren, James Gordon Brooks IV and Eloise Ann Brooks; much loved sister and brother-in-law, Jack and Laurene Alfandre and their family. We all loved our ‘Mimi’.
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