LeRoy Davis Brooks, son of Burtus A. and Emma Gavitt Brooks, was born August 25, 1885, in Waterford, Conn., and died October 27, 1974, at Preston, Conn.
He was a self-employed house painter and lived in Waterford except for thirty years, from 1924 to 1954 when he lived in Hartford. He was a member of the Waterford Seventh Day Baptist Church. His wife, Gunhild Person Brooks died in 1967.
Survivals include two sons, Howard of Waterford and Elmer of Hartford; a daughter, Mrs. Roger Newhall of Granby; two brothers, James of Lynbrook, N. Y., and Oliver of Marathon, Fla.; four sisters, Mrs. Leslie Getchell and Mrs. Paul Burdick of Waterford, Mrs. Everett Sanctuary of Amherst, Mass., and Mrs. Martha Paxton of Marathon, Fla.; and several grandchildren.
Memorial services were held in the Waterford Seventh Day Baptist Church, and burial occurred in the West Neck Cemetery. In charge of the services at the church were the Revs. Paul S. Burdick, and Dale E. Rood.
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