Extracted from The Jennings Daily News (Jennings, LA)
Thursday, January 1, 2004

Mary Brooks Allbritton

Jennings -- Mrs. Melvin (Mary Brooks) Allbritton, 76, died at 10:22 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003, in Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette.

Her funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, in Jennings United Methodist Church. The Revs. Dick Scott-Welch and Jimmie D. Pyles will officiate. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Miguez Funeral Home of Jennings. Funeral home visitation is 4-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2, and 8-9:30 a.m. Saturday, when the body will be taken to the church.

Mrs. Allbritton was a native of Manhattan, N.Y. She was a graduate of Louisiana Business College of Monroe, and was a 45 year resident of Jennings, moving from Oberlin. She was a retired bookkeeper for Angelle Concrete Inc. She worked for Steve Coco, Judge H.O. Lestage and the Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff's Office under Dallas Cormier. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Coffee Club, Entre Nous, Jennings United Methodist Church, the Nelson Sunday school Bible class, and the Miriam Circle of the United Methodist Women.

Survivors include her husband, Melvin Allbritton of Jennings; one daughter and son-in-law, Mary Rebecca and Dwight Hollier of Jennings; two sons and daughters-in-law, Glenn Howard and Deborah (Smith) Allbritton of Scottsdale, Ark., and Robert Michael and Susan (Leonards) Allbritton of Crowley; two sisters, Barbara Tomlin of Manhattan and Linda Cole of Grenada, Miss.; brother and sister-in-law, Billy Charles and Vickie Brooks of Pineville; and six grandchildren, Matt Hollier, Will Hollier, Zack Hollier, Brad Allbritton, Robert Michael Allbritton Jr., and Maddison Allbritton.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry Preston and Louise Kubeck Brooks; and one brother, H.P. Brooks Jr.