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BROOKS FAMILY HISTORY 7-3671929, Hazel received a Bachelor of Science degree in History from SouthwestTexas State University in San Marcos, Texas. On June 2, 1940, Hazel Brooksmarried Roy Rose (born June 1, 1908). Roy and Hazel Rose had no children.Hazel (Brooks) Rose was a school teacher for 28 years and taught in Melroseand Portales, New Mexico for eleven years and in Wimberley, Texas for sevenyears. Roy Rose died on October 27, 1975 and was buried in the WimberleyCemetery. From 1963 to 1981, Hazel (Brooks) Rose lived on Canyon Lake nearNew Braunfels, Texas. In August of 1981, Hazel moved to Benton, Kentucky.References: 1) Family Group Sheet by Bernice Casey, 1976; 2) Interview, Hazel(Brooks) Rose by Robert Casey, October 28, 1979; 3) Interview, Hazel (Brooks) Rose byRobert Casey, August, 1981Photograph, Hazel (Brooks) RoseERNEST ARLE BROOKS (4.6.3) is the son of Ernest Brooks and Mary (Wilson)Brooks. Arle was born on August 28, 1909 in Grimes, Oklahoma. In1935, Arle received a degree from Texas Christian University. Arle Brooksstudied at the Chicago Theological Seminary and did social work in Texas withthe Classification Section of the Texas Prison System. During 1940, he workedfor the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) in a work camp forboys. Arle Brooks was a Quaker and was therefore against war. During WorldWar II, he would have been exempted from combat because he was a minister.However, Arle had the courage to stand up for a principal and refused to registerfor the draft. He was sentenced and served one year for refusing to register andanother two years for not having a draft card. Following his release from prison,Arle rejoined the staff of the Quaker Service Committee as Secretary of thePrison Service Committee. He spent most of his time visiting men in state andfederal prisons as well as county jails, reform schools, army disciplinary barracksand other places of detention.On October 22, 1944, Arle Brooks married Arthelia Marguerite Hilleary at thehome of Ernest Brooks near San Marcos, Texas. Tillie was born on February11, 1915 at Alpena, West Virginia and is the daughter of John Edward Hillearyand Gertrude Elizabeth (Hertig) Hilleary. Tillie received a Bachelor of Arts degreefrom Morris Harvey College in Charleston, West Virginia and a Master ofArts degree from Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee. Arle and TillieBrooks were the parents of three children:............Paula Brooks, b. August 28, 1945, San Marcos, Texas............Marla Brooks (4.6.3.2), b. March 17, 1947, Elkins, West Virginia............Dena Brooks (4.6.3.3), b. August 21, 1949, Celo, North CarolinaArle Brooks died of cancer on July 6, 1953 and was buried in the Celo CommunityCemetery near Burnsville, North Carolina. Tillie has worked for an agriculturelaboratory and a newspaper, programmed for a radio station, taught fifthgrade and has served 26 years as a home missionary of the Methodist Church.In 1981, she became the resident manager of the Lakewood Wesley Village retirementcomplex. Paula Brooks has worked as a keypunch operator in Juneau,