Funeral services for Lena L. Leigh Brooks, 80, of 408 N.
Locust, Nyssa, Ore., who died on Thursday, Dec. 8 in an
Ontario nursing home of natural causes, will be conducted at
10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, in the Kirkpatrick Memorial
Community Church, Parma.
The Rev. C.H. Yadon and the Rev. Larry Ragains of the
Valley United Pentecostal Church, Caldwell, will officiate.
Interment will be in the Parma Cemetery, under the direction
of Dakan Funeral Chapel of Caldwell.
Mrs. Brooks was born Dec. 4, 1903, in the Ten Davis
Community east of Parma to William and Fannie Fretwell. She
graduated from Roswell schools. She married Cecil Leigh on
July 24, 1924. The first years of their lives together were
spent in McCleary, Wash., and the Willamette Valley in
Oregon. In 1935 they returned to the family homestead at
Apple Valley near Parma, and it was there that Cecil died on
Oct. 30, 1966. She then married Claude C. Brooks Nov. 27,
1976, and they moved to Nyssa.
She was a charter member of the Parma United
Pentecostal Church. |