Rachel Marie Brooks

Rachel Marie Brooks, recently of Jacksonville, Florida, passed peacefully on March 21, 2016, under the care of Community Hospice of Northeast Florida. Marie was born and raised in Waynesboro, Tennessee, but quickly moved to Miami, Florida, in 1942 when she married. She is predeceased by her mother and father, Ethel Lee and William T. Pope, by her husband James Albert (Bud) Brooks, and by all ten of her brothers and sisters. She is survived by her two sons, Ron (Donne Jeanne) of Jacksonville and Gary (Barbara) of Hanover, NH, 6 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Marie was a faithful member of First Baptist Church of South Miami, where she taught Sunday school classes and volunteered her services. She was a wonderful woman of God, faithful, obedient and caring. When she moved to Jacksonville in 2003, she became a member of Fleming Island Baptist Church of Orange Park, FL.

In addition to being a faithful wife and loving mother, Marie had an outstanding career with Marshall Field Enterprises, publishers of World Book Encyclopedia. When She retired in 1982, she was a Regional Manager over south Florida and Bahamas, with several hundred representatives and managers reporting to her. She thoroughly loved being a "World Booker".

There will be a graveside service at the Phillips Cemetery in Wayne County, Tennessee, on March 30, 2015 at 10 am. Any and all are invited to attend. In lieu of flowers the family suggests a donation to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001.

Arrangements by Hardage-Giddens Rivermead Funeral Home, Orange Park, FL www.hardage-giddensrivermead.com.