Chester Brooks

TORRINGTON, WYOMING..............Funeral services for CHESTER BROOKS, 88 will be held at 2:00p.m. on Friday, December 21, 2007 at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend David Lee officiating. Burial with military rites will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Chester died December 17, 2007 at Community Hospital. Memorials may be directed to the Special Touch Program at Community Hospital. Visitation will be Thursday from 3:00p.m. to 7:00p.m., Friday from 9:00a.m. to noon, and briefly following the service. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Chester was born November 15, 1919 in Abbott, Colorado the son of Cecil and Viola (Thomas) Brooks. He moved with his family to Oregon at the age of four for a short time, and then back to Abbott, and then to Scottsbluff, Nebraska. They moved to a farm south of Torrington in 1927 where he farmed with his father. He married Sara Olson on February 21, 1941 in Torrington and they later divorced. He entered the U.S. Navy in 1944 and was discharged in 1945. He came back to Torrington to ranch. He moved to Alliance, Nebraska for a short time and then to Wheatland, Wyoming where he worked for the 2 Bar Ranch. He moved back to Alliance in 1955 and in 1962 moved to the Trotter Ranch in Chugwater, Wyoming. He moved to Harrison, Nebraska in January of 1970 to work for Reynold C. Johnson. In 1984 he semi-retired and worked to John Morris in Cheyenne, Wyoming and John Patrick in Lingle, Wyoming. He also couriered X-ray films back and forth from Torrington to Cheyenne for the X-ray Department at Community Hospital. Chester was a member of the Eagles in Gering, Nebraska. Chester is survived by three sons, Roger Brooks and his wife Mary of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Monte Brooks and his wife Twila of Woodland Park, Colorado, and Sam Brooks and his wife Jo of Torrington, Wyoming; a daughter, Micki James of Cleveland, Ohio; three brothers, Kenneth Brooks and Warren Brooks both of Torrington, and Phillip Brooks of Scottsdale, Arizona; three sisters, Lena Lisle of Gering, Nebraska, Eleanor Messer of Cody, Wyoming, and Ruth Wailor of Seattle, Washington; a special friend Mary Jo Knoell of Torrington; twelve grandchildren; and thirty-one great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers; three sisters; and one son.

Chester Brooks

November 15, 1919 - December 17, 2007