Matthew Daniel Brooks

Matthew Daniel Brooks obituary, Gilmer, TX

Matthew Daniel Brooks

Matthew Brooks Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by McWhorter Funeral Home - Gilmer on May 27, 2025.

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Funeral services for Matthew Daniel Brooks, 40, of Big Sandy, Texas, will be held at 11:00 am, Friday, May 30, 2025, in the Chapel of McWhorter Funeral Home. Interment to follow at Oak Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Thursday.
Matthew was born on October 26, 1984, in Amarillo, Texas, to Bobby Nixon Brooks and Kimberly Choate Stevens, and passed from this life on May 25, 2025, in Houston, Texas.
Matthew proudly served our country in the United States Navy. He worked as a roughneck in the oilfield.
Those left to cherish his memory are his daughter, Kaitlyn Jean Brooks; father, Bobby Brooks; mother, Kim Stevens; stepfather, Tim Stevens; siblings, Michelle Bass, Jeffrey Wilkinson, Thomas Brooks, Austin Brooks, Alexandra Elder, Kamille Brooks, Kade Brooks, Taylor Stevens, and Brady Stevens
He was preceded in death by his sister, Stephanie Brooks; his grandparents, George and Virginia Choates, and Edward and Mary Brooks.
Pallbearers will be William Self, Jarrod Brooks, Jeffrey Wilkinson, Jackson Moore, Thomas Brooks, and Andrew Bass.
Please visit Matthew's online registration book at www.mcwhorterfh.com to leave a memory for the family.

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