Inez Hemphill Brooks

Inez H. Brooks of 140 School Road, Malvern Hills, died Friday, April 4, 2003, in an Asheville hospital. Mrs. Brooks was a native of McDowell County and had lived in Asheville and Canton since 1940. She was a daughter of the late Andrew Roswell and Nora Wilkerson Hemphill, and was also preceded in death by her husband, William Joseph Brooks who died in 1986, and by three sisters, Mary Sue Hendrix, Clara Parham, and Charlene Hemphill, and two brothers, Clyde Hemphill and Guy Hemphill. Mrs. Brooks attended Glenwood High School and Lees McRae College. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and a former member of the West Asheville Lions Club and the Mary Curtis Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She is survived by a niece, Pat Roberts of North Myrtle Beach, SC; two nephews, Steven Shields of Asheville and Timothy Shields; cousins Bea and Britt Hemphill of Brevard, Marjorie Crawford of Braintree, MA, Jonathan Crawford of Braintree, and David Crawford of Glencoe, IL. Services will be at 11:00 am Monday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Buddy Corbin, the Rev. Donald N. Welborn and the Rev. Sue Wright-Barron officiating. Graveside rites will be at 2:00 pm Monday at Montford Cove Baptist Church Cemetery in Rutherford County. Her family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home and request that memorials be made to the Calvary Baptist Church Scholarship Fund, 531 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806.