{"id":3515,"date":"2021-06-29T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2021-06-29T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:07:40","slug":"phyllis-rae-brooks-may-23-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/2021\/06\/29\/phyllis-rae-brooks-may-23-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Phyllis Rae Brooks &#8211; May 23, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3516\" src=\"http:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-29-at-8.56.02-AM-272x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-29-at-8.56.02-AM-272x300.png 272w, https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-29-at-8.56.02-AM.png 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>Phyllis Ray Brooks, age 79, of Red Oak, Texas, passed away at 4:30 pm on May 23, 2021. After a long struggle with several ailments in recent years, she went to be with the Lord Jesus and is now without pain or illness.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Brooks was born in Waco, Texas on March 3, 1942 to Pauline Ray and William Ira Brooks. She is preceded in death by her parents and her brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Madelynn Brooks. She is survived by her nephews, nieces, and several grandnephews and grandnieces: Chris and Stephanie Brooks, Josh and Alicia Choat (children Aria and Leo), Hunter and Lindsey Brooks, Alex and Brii Kellum, Tanner Brooks, Keith and Sally Riddle (children, Addis and Heidi), Roy and Rebecca Harsila (children: Brooks and Bodee), Ben Brooks (child: Alix), as well as by cousins in the Brooks family.<\/p>\n<p>Phyllis Ray Brooks was admitted to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) on November 8, 1969 in the Sterling C Robertson Chapter in Waco. Her current chapter was Cedar Mountains, District II. She had been a member for almost 52 years.<\/p>\n<p>Phyllis enjoyed holidays with family, genealogy research, volunteering, working\u00a0as a substitute teacher, and serving in the DRT. She loved the people of\u00a0Ovilla Road Baptist Church and her work at the Veteran\u2019s Administration.\u00a0Phyllis had a knack for making jalapeno jelly that she gave as gifts at\u00a0Christmas time.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to Ovilla Road Baptist\u00a0Church &#8230; 3251 Ovilla Road, Red Oak, TX<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BrooksPhyllis_Obit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phyllis Ray Brooks, age 79, of Red Oak, Texas, passed away at 4:30 pm on May 23, 2021. After a long struggle with several ailments in recent years, she went to be with the Lord Jesus and is now without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/2021\/06\/29\/phyllis-rae-brooks-may-23-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whs60.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}