Brighid D. Brooks, 62, hospital volunteer

Brighid Dougherty Brooks, 62, of Media, a former real estate agent and hospital volunteer, died Saturday, June 18, at home. The cause of death is pending the results of an autopsy. She was being treated for complications from spinal surgery.

Since the early 1980s, Mrs. Brooks had been involved in fund-raising for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She was past secretary and president of the Doctors' Wives Committee, and in the 1980s and 1990s worked with the committee to organize the annual Philadelphia Antiques Show for the benefit of the hospital.

With other doctors' wives, she volunteered at the Nearly New Shop in Ardmore, said her husband, John S. J. Brooks, a pathologist at Penn.

A native of Concordville, Mrs. Brooks graduated from Ursuline Academy in Wilmington and earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in English from West Chester University.

She and her husband married in 1969. They met in seventh grade at St. Thomas the Apostle School in Glen Mills.

While raising three children in Swarthmore, Mrs. Brooks assisted new mothers through a nursing mothers group, served on the Swarthmore Swim Club Council, and was a volunteer and produced the newsletter for the Community Arts Center in Wallingford.

For seven or eight years, she sold real estate for Century 21, and for many years was judge of elections in Swarthmore, her husband said.

In 1993, Mrs. Brooks and her husband moved to Buffalo. After they moved to Media in 2001, she again became active with fund-raising at Penn Medicine and was a poll watcher at elections in the Rose Tree-Media School District.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Brooks is survived by a daughter, Brighid Kelly; sons J. Patrick and J. Michael; and four grandchildren.

Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, at Nolan-Fidale Funeral Home, 5980 Chichester Ave., Aston, and from 10 a.m., followed by a Funeral Mass at 11, Thursday, June 23, at St. Mary Magdalen Church, 2400 N. Providence Rd., Media. Burial will be in St. Thomas the Apostle Church Cemetery, Chester Heights.

Donations may be made to Brighid Brooks Educational Scholarship Fund, c/o TD Bank, 42 E. Baltimore Pike, Media, Pa. 19063.