Post-Herald & Register Beckley, West Virginia May 26, 1957 George Brooks Former Pineville Postmaster, Dies PINEVILLE (RNS) ----George Arnold Brooks, 61, retired Pineville postmaster, died at 6:25 a.m. Saturday in Bluefield Sanitarium. In failing health for several years, he was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. His retirement as a postmaster came after 37 years of service. A veteran of World War I, and member of the Varney Cline American Legion Post, he was also a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Pineville Methodist Church. Born Nov. 3, 1895 at Oceana, he was the son of the late I.B. and Belle Canterbury Brooks. Surviving are his wife, Bessie; four sisters, Mrs. Charles Barrett and Mrs. J. D. Mangus, both of Madison, Mrs. J. W. Burton, and Mrs. G. F. Brown, both of Pineville; and a half brother, Bert Canterbury, Bolt. Funeral services will be conducted at the Pineville Methodist Church at 11 a.m. Monday by the Rev. Sam Harford, assisted by the Rev. Albert Young, the Rev. Norman Morgan, the Rev. W. R. McCoy. Masonic burial rites will follow at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery, Beckley. >From the Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home, the body will be removed to the Brooks resident in the Crowley-Worrell Addition, at 5 p.m. Sunday, and will be removed from there to the church one hour prior to services.