Corrine Jeanette Jorgensen Brooks died on December 19, 2020 at Amarillo, Texas. She was born February 25, 1927 in Minneapolis Minnesota. Her parents were Alfred and Magna Jorgensen. The family moved to Garrison, Minnesota around 1930 where Corrine was raised. She graduated from Aiken High School in Aitkin, Minnesota and from a Business School in Minneapolis. She was an accomplished Comptrometer operator. She married William B. “Bill” Brooks in Hico, Texas on December 5, 1953. Bill worked for the Soil Conservation Service, and the Red River Valley Authority. They lived in Quanah, Childress, Pampa, Spearman and Wheeler, Texas before moving to Paris, Texas in May, 1974.
Corrine and Bill were members of First Baptist Church in Paris, Texas. All through her married life she was active in a Baptist church, usually as a teacher when her children were small and then as Department Secretary. She was very active in Scouting, serving many years as Den Mother for her boys and Leader of a Girl Scout Troop for her daughter. Corrine was a charter member of the Kiwanianne club of Paris.
Corrine was preceded in death by her daughter, Rebecca Ann, her husband Bill, by her parents and by three brothers, Alfred, Howard and Bob, as well as by four sisters, Marie, Katherine, Margaret and Marian. She is survived by her sons, James and wife Angela of Las Cruces, New Mexico and Wyatt and wife Laura of Amarillo, and her grandchildren Hanna and William. She is survived by one sister in law, Betty Jorgensen of Big Fork, Minnesota.
Fry-Gibbs funeral home will conduct graveside services at Tolar Cemetery in Tolar, Texas on December 28, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. In honor of her specific request there will be no funeral service, no visitation and no viewing of the body. She will be laid to rest beside her daughter at her request.
