Mabel A. Brooks
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Eagle Valley Enterprise page 23 - December 22, 1994
A memorial service will be held Friday, Dec. 23 at 2 p.m. at the Gypsum Cemetery in honor of former Eagle County resident Mabel Brooks who died Dec. 16 at the Community Care Center in Grand Junction where she had lived for the past 20 years. She was 97.
Mrs. Brooks, born Nov. 21, 1897, was Eagle County's first woman judge and served in that position during the 1930s and 1940s.
Mrs. Brooks came to Eagle County as a pioneer and spent her childhood on a ranch in the Wolcott area. She later attended high school in Gypsum and lived for many years in Eagle. She was preceded in death by her husband, H.K. (Hollis, Holly) Brooks and by three nephews, Bruce Schwartz of Denver, and Ralph and Donald Schwartz of Littleton. Two nieces, Eva Zastrow of Rifle and Martha Godbold of Tonto Basin, AZ.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page P.2B - December 18, 1994
