Bobby Leroy Brooks

A proud Criminal, Brooks graduated from Yuma High School in 1958 and attended every reunion and the football games. As a friend of the late Msgr. Richard O’Keefe, he also attended Yuma Catholic High School football games.

After graduating, he went to what was then Arizona State College (now Northern Arizona University). Home for the summer, he worked at the local meat packing company.

Brooks fell in love with the boss’ daughter and married her. He and Karen Jones Brooks became parents to Glenda Brooks, Bobbie “Sis” Brooks, Walter Scott Brooks and Kami Goldstein. He later married Roberta Sawers Brooks, and they had Briana Duvall and Bobby Leroy Brooks Jr., and were married for 48 years. Bobby also has 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be on Friday, 3 December, at 2:30 o'clock PM at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. A Funeral Mass will follow immediately after the Rosary, at 3:00 o'clock PM on Friday, 3 December 2021.

Private cremation will be done at Desert Lawn Memorial Park Crematory, with the cremated remains to be interred in the family plot in the Yuma Pioneer Cemetery.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.johnsonmortuaryyuma.com for the Brooks family.