Family and mates of a Unusual Orleans man who changed into the oldest World Battle II gentle when he died earlier in January will win to be wide awake him at a ceremony in a museum memorializing the struggle.
Funeral services shall be held Saturday at The Nationwide WWII Museum in Unusual Orleans for Lawrence Brooks, who died on Jan. 5 on the age of 112.
The funeral service, which begins at 10 a.m., is for invited family, mates and guests but furthermore shall be livestreamed on the museum’s web command. After the service a extinct jazz procession will note ahead of Brooks is taken to Mount Olivet Cemetery in Unusual Orleans the place he’ll be laid to relaxation.
World Battle II gentle Lawrence Brooks holds a list of him taken in 1943, when he renowned his 110th birthday on the Nationwide World Battle II Museum in Unusual Orleans, on Sept. 12, 2019. (AP/Gerald Herbert)
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Brooks changed into drafted into the U.S. Military in 1940. After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, he changed into assigned to the largely Murky 91st Engineer Overall Carrier Regiment stationed in Australia. The 91st changed into a unit that built bridges, roads and airstrips for planes. Brooks changed into assigned as a caretaker to 3 white officers — cooking, driving and taking care of their dresses.
World Battle II gentle Lawrence Brooks sports activities a lipstick kiss on his cheek, planted by a member of the singing crew Victory Belles, at some stage in his 110th birthday celebration.
(AP/Gerald Herbert)
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He changed into discharged from the Military in August 1945 as a non-public top quality.
The ceremony shall be held on the Nationwide WWII Museum in Unusual Orleans. (Google Maps)
When he returned from service, he labored as a forklift driver till retiring in his 60s. He has five young people, five stepchildren, and dozens of grandchildren and expansive-grandchildren. He misplaced his wife, Leona, rapidly after Hurricane Katrina.
