Obituary of Wilma Brooks

Wilma Ruth Brooks passed from this life Sunday night painlessly and peacefully. Born January 6, 1926, to William and Alpha Paine she was a lifelong resident of the Sapulpa-Tulsa area. During World War II she married high school boyfriend Richard T. Fricker who was serving in the U.S. Navy. As a Navy wife she lived in Corpus Christi, TX, Pensacola, Fla. Honolulu, HI and Millington, TN. Following the war she lived in the Sapulpa-Tulsa area. She worked for many years at Bartlett-Collins Glass Company in Sapulpa. She finished her working career with J.C. Penny's Co.'s Promenade Mall store. She enjoyed fishing, traveling, watching golf, NASCAR and rodeo's. Among her pastimes were knitting and building scrapbooks. Pets were a constant source of pleasure. She always had a cat or dog, sometimes both, in her home. During her sons school years she was active in Sacred Heart and St. Catherine's parishes. But, besides her sons, the accomplishment of which she was most proud being a friend of Bill's for over forty years. She is survived by sons and daughters in law, Richard L. and Belinda Fricker, James W. and Barbara Fricker and Vaughn N. Fricker all of Tulsa-Chouteau; grandchildren Austin H. Fricker, Heather Rose Gantt, Richard K. Peterson, Penny S. Fricker-Notz, Tabitha J. Fricker-Felts; great-grandchildren Megan Notz, Lindsey and Christopher Felts, Jerrod and Taylor Peterson and great-great grandson Cameron L. Peterson, all of Tulsa. She is remembered with affection by Judi Fricker and Laura J. Hicks-Drye. A rosary will be held Thursday Oct. 18th , at Green Hill Funeral Home Chapel beginning at 7 p.m. Roman Catholic burial services will be at Green Hill Friday Oct. 18th at 1 p.m.