Michael Reed Brooks

Michael Reed Brooks

Michael Reed Brooks, 59, died Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at The Gatehouse Hospice in Williamsport, Pa.

Born Dec. 27, 1950, at Scotts Air Force Base, Belleville, Ill., he was the son of Benjamin Lee Brooks Jr. (DDS, USAF Ret.) and Margaret Barringer Brooks. A resident of Williamsport and Lewisburg, he graduated from James Blair High School, Williamsburg, in 1969. He attended the Uniersity of South Carolina and was in the U.S. Navy. He was a master pewterer in Williamsburg and in Lexington, after completing his apprenticeship with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and a Journeymanship with Shirley Pewter, also in Williamsburg. He worked in both production and sales for Virginia Metalcrafters. Most recently, Michael was a truck driver for Milton Transportation.

He is survived by his loving and devoted partner, Valerie Beggs, of Williamsport: his daughters, Elizabeth Brooks Lyttleton, of Washington, D.C., and Rebecca Kelley Brooks, of Brooklyn, N.Y.: granddaughters, Gryphon Eloise Lyttleton, 6, and Fletcher Mei Lyttleton, 3: sister, Ann B. Gavin; and brothers, Benjamin Lee Brooks III, David Winston Brooks, Frank Barringer Brooks and Paul Scott Lee Brooks. In Virginia, he is survived by his aunt, Margaret Brooks Burruss, and his cousins, Hanna Brooks Burruss, Mary Burruss Ping Bailey, Rebecca Burruss Satterfield, James R. Burruss, Sandra Grace Brooks and Karen Brooks Green.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his maternal grandparents, Pete and Fannie Barringer, formerly of Lynchburg.

Interment will be at 2 p.m. today, Sept. 11, 2010, at the Fort Hill Memorial Park, Lynchburg.

In lieu of flowers, Michael's family requests donations be made to The Gatehouse Hospice Unit, Divine Providence Hospital, Williamsport, PA 17701.