Myrtle Elaine Cameron Brooks

Myrtle Elaine Cameron Brooks, 95, died Tuesday evening, January 14, 2014, in Brewton, Alabama. She was born June 17, 1918 in Birmingham, Alabama to John Edward and Katie Myrtle Byram Cameron, fourth of eleven children.

Mrs. Brooks graduated in 1937 at the top of her class from Ensley High School. In August of that year she married Auburn Edward Brooks and they remained married until his death in February of 2005. The Couple had five children, thirteen grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren. She remained a homemaker and mother for twenty years until the youngest child was in school. After that she worked for years with children who were born with brain injuries. She began working at Etowah High School in 1966 and after ten years she went to work for the Attalla City Board of Education for seven years until her retirement in 1983.

Mrs. Brooks was preceded in death by two grandsons, Jimmy Sundy and Vince Johnson, her husband Auburn Brooks and son-in-law James Sundy. She is survived by her five children: daughters, Anita Sundy of Castleberry, Alabama; Lois (Kenneth) Spraggins of Southside, Alabama; Sue Brooks of Boaz, Alabama; Audrey (King) McCarver of Ripley, Mississippi; son, Auburn Brooks, Jr. of Castleberry, Alabama. She is also survived by eleven grandchildren and all of the great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

She was a member of churches of Christ for 68 years in Birmingham, Gadsden, and Huntsville.

Funeral services for Mrs. Brooks will be Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Collier-butler Funeral Home with King McCarver and Jeremiah McCarver officiating. Interment will be at Rainbow Memorial Gardens. Men of the family will serve as pallbearers.

The family will receive visitors 12:00-2:00 p.m. prior to the funeral.

Online condolences may be made at www.collier-butler.com.