Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 12
Marlin, Texas, Friday, May 15, 1931

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
DR. S. P. BROOKS HELD TODAY

Body Lies in State at Waco Hall--
Tribute Paid to Departed by
Friends and Associates.
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       Funeral services for Dr. S. P. Brooks, president of Baylor University, who died early Thursday after a long illness, were held this afternoon at Waco Hall.  The body lay in state in the rotunda of the hall from 12:30 to 2:30.
       Ministers, laymen, citizens, friends and associates paid loving tribute to the memory of deceased.
       Dr. Brooks had a large circle of friends in Marlin.  He spent several days here for treatment, during which the vital seriousness of his illness developed and was taken from here to the Baptist sanitarium at Waco.

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