GUTHRIE - The funeral for Marvin Q. Brooks, 66, who died Sunday in an Oklahoma City hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church at Crescent. The Rev. Jimmy Justus will officiate. Burial will be in Oakland-Knowles Cemetery, south of Crescent, under direction of Abernathy Funeral Home.
Brooks was born Nov. 8, 1918, in Guthrie. He had been a longtime resident of Crescent and Guthrie, and was a retired tool pusher for Bon Ray Drilling Co.
Brooks was a veteran of World War II, serving with the United States Army Air Corp. He also was a member of the VFW at Guthrie. On Dec. 1, 1973, he and Irene Nixon were married at Woodward.
Survivors include his wife, Irene; two sons, Kim, Crescent, and David, Houston, Texas; two daughters, Marva Walsh, Arapaho, and Joyce Douglas, Christ Church, New Zealand; three step-children, Victor Lee Nixon, Elmor City; C. R. Nixon, Freedom; and Anna Marie Davis, Phoenix, Ariz.; three brothers, Turner Brooks Jr., OklahomaCity; Alfred Brooks, Kingfisher; and Donnie Brooks, El Paso, Texas; four sisters, Phern Arthur, San Francisco, Calif.; Darla Rowten, Oklahoma City; Wanda Burpo, Dover; and Treva Ann Sparks,Hobbs, N.M.; 10 grandchildren; seven step-grandchildren; and one step-great-grandchild.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Memorials in his name may be made to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Cancer Division, with the funeral home serving as custodian of the funds.