Greta Brooks

A memorial service for Greta Joyce Brooks, 61, will be held at Wendt Funeral Home in Moline at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2005. Mrs. Brooks died Monday, Feb. 28, 2005, at Rosewood Nursing Home in Moline after a brief but well fought battle with a cancerous brain tumor.
Mrs. Brooks was born June 13, 1943, in Maquoketa, Iowa. She graduated from Black Hawk College as the first student to earn a perfect 4.0 grade average. She went on to earn a B.A. at Augustana College, as a continuous member of the Dean's List. Later in life she earned an M.B.A. from the University of Iowa while a full-time wife, mother and employee of the Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging (WIAAA). Mrs. Brooks worked at the WIAAA since Aug. 1976 and in June of 1987 rose to the position of director of that not-for-profit organization where she served until her death. Mrs. Brooks enjoyed her family and friends at home and in her many travels about the country with them.
She was a lifetime member of Gold Wind Road Riders Association. Mrs. Brooks was also an avid genealogist and scrap booker. She read and studied diligently until the end of her life and was always striving to improve herself and contribute to the lives and well being of those around her. Her circle of personal and professional peers was at once extensive and diverse. Mrs. Brooks was deeply committed to all of them and would have wished to include then in her listing of survivors.
Her daughter, Nicolet "Nicky" JoAnn Brooks, preceded Mrs. Brooks in death.
She is survived by her husband of 43 years, James, a United States Air Force veteran and retired telecommunications technician and current woodturning artisan. Surviving relatives also include her mother, Marvil Sutton, 94; son, James Brooks II; brother, Clemet Sutton his wife, Connie; and several nieces, nephews, and their children.
Memorials may be made to the Quad-City Diabetes Foundation and the Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging (WIAAA).