Ben F. Brooks, death date 12/10/1978 in Bogata, Red River County, age 89, retired rancher, agri. - civil service.
FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1977-1986 .
Benjamin F. Brooks, birth date 8/23/1889, death date 12/10/1978, burial in Detroit Cemetery, Detroit, Red River County.
Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch of the Brooks family, History of Clarksville and Old Red River County, pp. 213-214. Ben F. Brooks, "representative of Red County in the Forty-First and Forty Second Legislatures of Texas from January, 1929, to January, 1933."
HeritageQuest Online .
Biographical sketch, "Who's Who and What's What in the Texas Legislature," by Ed Kilman, 1/7/1929, p. 5.
Houston Post-Dispatch .
Obituary, Ben F. Brooks, 12/11/1978, p. 4.
Paris News .