Exclusive: Husband Mourns Wife's Death
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Updated: July 21, 2010
Friends, family, and a local church remain in shock after a
24-year-old
Karah Brooks had a lot to live for.
"It was all about our son Madden. She was so in love with
Madden and he was her world," said Brooks’ husband Jimmy Brooks.
Brooks was more than just a great mother to her 20- month-
old son. She was also an extraordinary wife, daughter, and sister. Kolton, her
younger brother, meant a lot to her. He had brain surgery a couple of years
ago.
"Late into her pregnancy she was up at the hospital with
him all day, then all night. She never went home," he said.
She took it upon herself to always be there for him when he
needed her.
"It was so fun to hear her visiting with him and it
was just really neat. It was a bond that I think was unusual even for siblings
for her to be that close like that," said friend Teena Robbins.
Indeed Brooks was one in a million. Her family and friends
said she was the most selfless person they’d ever met.
"She never took the time for herself. There was always
somebody else that she thought needed help more than her,” said her husband.
That's how she lived her life. Brooks worked as an
administrative assistant for student ministries at Stonegate Fellowship in
“She went into her work with the hope
that I'm going to do something that is going to hopefully make a change and
make a difference in somebody’s life,” said Neil Rogers, a pastor Brooks worked
closely with at Stonegate.
Tomorrow a funeral visitation will be held for Brooks at the
Nalley-Pickle & Welch funeral home in
Her family is asking the public to donate money to a scholarship program Brooks started at Stonegate for kids that can’t afford to go to camp instead of sending flowers.
Visit the Facebook page friends and family made for Karah Brooks here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100001360939914&ref=search
