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Brookey Robert L 680516 np
R.L. Brookey To Be Buried In Grayson; Robert Leon Brookey, 68, died early Monday morning in a Paradise hospital.
He had made his home with his sister, Mrs. William L. Diesbrock in Paradise since January. Brookey was born
Sept.7,1899, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brookey in Coal Hill, Ark.  The family moved to Grayson in 1902 where he was
raised.  As a young man he moved to the Bay Area and in 1919 became an employee of the U.S. Post Office Department
as a railway postal clerk, and traveled mainly in California and Oregon. After his retirement in September, 1959, he made
his home in Salt Lake City, Utah, until moving to Paradise. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Ruth B. Diesbrock of
Paradise and Mrs. Nora B. Chapman of Santa Cruz; one brother, Walter W. Brookey of Modesto; and two nieces, Mrs.
Dorothea Schneider of Capay and Louise Diesbrock of Paradise. Funeral services were held in the Hall-Van Hook
Funeral Chapel in Chico Tuesday with the Rev. Paul Aasen of the Faith Lutheran Church officiating. Norman Sandberg
was organist and Merrill Womach, soloist. Cremation followed at the Chico Crematory. At a future date, the ashes will be
buried in the Grayson Pioneer Cemetery, Grayson.