Claudie B. Brooks Sr.
March 3, 1933 – Oct. 15, 2015

Mr. Claudie Benjamin Brooks Sr., age 82, a resident of 18956 NC Hwy. 264 East, Pinetown, died Thursday, October 15, 2015 at his home.
A funeral service will be held 3:00 p.m. Sunday, October 18, 2015 at Paul Funeral Home & Crematory of Washington officiated by Rev. Tony Parrish. Burial will follow in Yeatesville Cemetery. Bowen Brooks, Royce Woolard, Tyler Woolard, Brent Pilgreen, Kevin Richards and Mitchel Keech will serve as pallbearers.
The family will receive friends 2:00 p.m. until the funeral hour Sunday at the Funeral Home and other times at his home.
Claudie was born in Beaufort County on March 3, 1933, son of the late WM Pettigrew Brooks and the late Lossie L. Forest Brooks. He was a 1953 graduate of Pantego High School. On June 26, 1955 he married the former Rosalee Congleton who preceded him in death on August 14, 2008. Claudie was a retired supervisor of Weyerhaeuser in Plymouth, a member of Free Union Free Will Baptist Church and a member of Belhaven Lodge 509 AF&AM. He was known to many as the “Mayor of Yeatesville” the community that he dearly loved.
Survivors include a son: Claudie “Benjie” Brooks Jr., of Pinetown; a daughter, Michele Brooks “Missy” Woolard, of Raleigh; a sister, Sadie Riepe of Washington; three grandchildren, Benjamin Royce Woolard (Jenni), Benjamin Bowen Brooks (Kayla), and Shana Woolard Swanner; and one great-grandchild, Hazel Woolard. Claudie was predeceased by a grandson, Zack Woolard; two sisters, Kathleen Waters and Lossie Brooks; and two brothers, J.P. Brooks and William Ledrue Brooks.
Flowers are welcome and appreciated and the family kindly asks for any memorial contributions to be made to Relay for Life of Beaufort County, Attn: Memorials, P.O. Box 2708, Washington, NC 27889.
Online condolences may be offered to the family by visiting www.paulfuneralhome.com.
Paul Funeral Home & Crematory of Washington is honored to serve Claudie’s family.