Ramona Brooks

Ramona Brooks, 82, of Brooks Circle left her Earthly Home to join JESUS, her Lord and Savior and her missed and loving husband Archie, in heaven Thursday, July 18, 2019 with loving family by her side.

A memorial service will be 3 pm, Sunday, July, 21, 2019 at Friendship UMC with Rev. David Peeler officiating. The family will receive family and friends 2 to 3 pm at the church before the service.

Mrs. Brooks was born February, 6, 1937, in Friendship House on Friendship Church Road in Davidson County, to Paul Harrison Hartley Sr. and Carrie Louise Hunt Hartley. She was a member of Friendship United Methodist Church, raised on a farm, drove a truck for her dad at Hartley Redi-Mix, hauling sand. She retired from the United States Postal Service as a Rural Letter Carrier. She is preceded in death by her parents and husband Archie Brooks, Sister-In-law Gail Koonts and husband Bruce, Brothers-In-law Bob Maxwell, Benny Walser, and Charlie Comer.

Ramona is survived by her daughters Paula Brooks and Beth Highfill and husband Mark; sisters; Charlotte Walser, Tillie Comer, brother Harrison Hartley Jr. and wife Connie, sister-in-law Sally Maxwell. Four grandchildren; Brandy Mayfield (John), Carmen McLeod (Timmy), Candice Knuth-Winterfeldt (Kris), and Shelley Freeman (Barrett). Nine great-grandchildren; Ivy Brucker, Emily Brucker, Tyler Knuth-Winterfeldt, Liberty McLeod, Michael Tarter, Isabel Knuth-Winterfeldt, Maddie McLeod, Adam Freeman, and Kaydence Coble.

Memorials may be made to Friendship United Methodist Church, 2840 Friendship Church Road, Lexington, NC 27295 or the Central North Carolina Chapter National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2211 W. Meadowview Road, Suite 30, Greensboro, NC 27407.