Below obituary added as received on 26 Oct 2013, as per suggestion.
Nora Pauline Brookes Walls, 81, died Dec. 26, 1988 in OKC.
born Nov. 3, 1907 in Hugo, Indian Territory to Claudia Jameson Philips Brookes and Frederick McLaurine Brookes.
Pauline attended college in Denton, Tx., majoring in Journalism and English and graduated from Central State in Edmond with a degree in Education. She attended courses at Northwestern University in Chicago and obtained a Masters of Arts from Okla. University.
Pauline taught school for many years and later worked for the State Welfare Office. On Aug. 15, 1937,
She was a member of the Okla. and Colorado State Writer's Clubs. She had recently won a prize for a poem submitted to the Colorado State Writer's Club.
She also wrote and copywrited a song performed by a Nashville artist. She was a member of the Nashville Song Writer's Assn. International.
Although she was legally blind from the time she was a young woman, she maintained an independent attitude and a lively interest in the world. She had a life-long interest in gems and minerals and educated herself in this area.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Fred and Bill Brookes and sister, Claudia Bess Hughes.
Survivors included her sisters, Martha Brookes Bartlett, Virginia (Mrs. Art Gragg); her sister-in-law, Lois Brookes; brother-in-law, Bryce Hughes; many nieces and nephews.
(adapted from her obituary)
Nora Pauline Brookes Walls, 81, died Dec. 26, 1988 in OKC.
born Nov. 3, 1907 in Hugo, Indian Territory to Claudia Jameson Philips Brookes and Frederick McLaurine Brookes.
Pauline attended college in Denton, Tx., majoring in Journalism and English and graduated from Central State in Edmond with a degree in Education. She attended courses at Northwestern University in Chicago and obtained a Masters of Arts from Okla. University.
Pauline taught school for many years and later worked for the State Welfare Office. On Aug. 15, 1937,
She was a member of the Okla. and Colorado State Writer's Clubs. She had recently won a prize for a poem submitted to the Colorado State Writer's Club.
She also wrote and copywrited a song performed by a Nashville artist. She was a member of the Nashville Song Writer's Assn. International.
Although she was legally blind from the time she was a young woman, she maintained an independent attitude and a lively interest in the world. She had a life-long interest in gems and minerals and educated herself in this area.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Fred and Bill Brookes and sister, Claudia Bess Hughes.
Survivors included her sisters, Martha Brookes Bartlett, Virginia (Mrs. Art Gragg); her sister-in-law, Lois Brookes; brother-in-law, Bryce Hughes; many nieces and nephews.
(adapted from her obituary)
Below obituary added as received on 26 Oct 2013, as per suggestion.
Nora Pauline Brookes Walls, 81, died Dec. 26, 1988 in OKC.
born Nov. 3, 1907 in Hugo, Indian Territory to Claudia Jameson Philips Brookes and Frederick McLaurine Brookes.
Pauline attended college in Denton, Tx., majoring in Journalism and English and graduated from Central State in Edmond with a degree in Education. She attended courses at Northwestern University in Chicago and obtained a Masters of Arts from Okla. University.
Pauline taught school for many years and later worked for the State Welfare Office. On Aug. 15, 1937,
She was a member of the Okla. and Colorado State Writer's Clubs. She had recently won a prize for a poem submitted to the Colorado State Writer's Club.
She also wrote and copywrited a song performed by a Nashville artist. She was a member of the Nashville Song Writer's Assn. International.
Although she was legally blind from the time she was a young woman, she maintained an independent attitude and a lively interest in the world. She had a life-long interest in gems and minerals and educated herself in this area.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Fred and Bill Brookes and sister, Claudia Bess Hughes.
Survivors included her sisters, Martha Brookes Bartlett, Virginia (Mrs. Art Gragg); her sister-in-law, Lois Brookes; brother-in-law, Bryce Hughes; many nieces and nephews.
(adapted from her obituary)
Nora Pauline Brookes Walls, 81, died Dec. 26, 1988 in OKC.
born Nov. 3, 1907 in Hugo, Indian Territory to Claudia Jameson Philips Brookes and Frederick McLaurine Brookes.
Pauline attended college in Denton, Tx., majoring in Journalism and English and graduated from Central State in Edmond with a degree in Education. She attended courses at Northwestern University in Chicago and obtained a Masters of Arts from Okla. University.
Pauline taught school for many years and later worked for the State Welfare Office. On Aug. 15, 1937,
She was a member of the Okla. and Colorado State Writer's Clubs. She had recently won a prize for a poem submitted to the Colorado State Writer's Club.
She also wrote and copywrited a song performed by a Nashville artist. She was a member of the Nashville Song Writer's Assn. International.
Although she was legally blind from the time she was a young woman, she maintained an independent attitude and a lively interest in the world. She had a life-long interest in gems and minerals and educated herself in this area.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Fred and Bill Brookes and sister, Claudia Bess Hughes.
Survivors included her sisters, Martha Brookes Bartlett, Virginia (Mrs. Art Gragg); her sister-in-law, Lois Brookes; brother-in-law, Bryce Hughes; many nieces and nephews.
(adapted from her obituary)
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