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Longtime resident of Fresno and Nevada Counties, Calif. and Harney County, Ore., Alan R. Brooks passed away on Feb. 5, 2012. He was 73.
A memorial service will take place 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at Nevada City Elks Lodge.
He was born in Oakland, Calif., on Sept. 25, 1938. The family then moved to Oceano in 1939 and to Fresno in 1941. The Brooks family owned and operated produce packing sheds in Nipomo, Santa Maria and Los Banos, Calif., from 1939 through 1961.
Alan Brooks graduated from Bullard Grammar School in 1952, from Fresno High School in 1956, from Fresno State (BS) in 1962, from Fresno State (MS) in 1964 and attended the Graduate School of Business at University of Washington from 1964 through 1965. He moved to Nevada City in 1967.
Brooks owned and developed the Bar Ela Ranch in Chicago Park from 1968 through 1983. He also owned and developed the Brunswick East Commercial and Professional Office complexes from 1976 through 1986.
He then sold his holdings and bought and operated the Pedro Springs Ranch in Harney County, Ore., from 1986 through to the present. He had a history with registered quarterhorses and black angus cattle.
From 1959 through 1964, he traveled throughout Mexico, the United States, western Europe and the South Pacific. He was also an accomplished tennis player, downhill snow skier, a novice airman and sailor, and broke two Junior World Olympic swimming records in 1953.
He was also an accomplished cadastral and mineral surveyor for nearly 50 years. He also provided construction staking for very large construction projects located in Park City, Utah; Georgetown, Alta Sierra, Lake Wildwood, and the Winchester project near Meadow Vista; all in California.
He was especially proud of his family's partnership participation in very large cadastral projects for the Plumas, Sierra, Tahoe, Eldorado and Stanislaus national forests and Siller Bros, Erickson Lumber and Sierra Pacific Land Holdings for nearly 40 years.
Finally, he was especially proud of his personal development standards in land use matters with special emphasis on his own commercial and professional buildings, such as the Brunswick East Project and residential owned, designed and built projects situated in Nevada County and Harney County, Ore. He also devoted his life to scholarships, to his extended family and the pursuit of knowledge.
He is survived by the love of his life, Glenda Partner. He is also survived by Jeannine, Eric Partner and Ian Partner, Marika, Carol and Heather. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Wade, Ty and Saige.
He is predeceased by his father, mother and brother.
A memorial service will take place 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at Nevada City Elks Lodge.
He was born in Oakland, Calif., on Sept. 25, 1938. The family then moved to Oceano in 1939 and to Fresno in 1941. The Brooks family owned and operated produce packing sheds in Nipomo, Santa Maria and Los Banos, Calif., from 1939 through 1961.
Alan Brooks graduated from Bullard Grammar School in 1952, from Fresno High School in 1956, from Fresno State (BS) in 1962, from Fresno State (MS) in 1964 and attended the Graduate School of Business at University of Washington from 1964 through 1965. He moved to Nevada City in 1967.
Brooks owned and developed the Bar Ela Ranch in Chicago Park from 1968 through 1983. He also owned and developed the Brunswick East Commercial and Professional Office complexes from 1976 through 1986.
He then sold his holdings and bought and operated the Pedro Springs Ranch in Harney County, Ore., from 1986 through to the present. He had a history with registered quarterhorses and black angus cattle.
From 1959 through 1964, he traveled throughout Mexico, the United States, western Europe and the South Pacific. He was also an accomplished tennis player, downhill snow skier, a novice airman and sailor, and broke two Junior World Olympic swimming records in 1953.
He was also an accomplished cadastral and mineral surveyor for nearly 50 years. He also provided construction staking for very large construction projects located in Park City, Utah; Georgetown, Alta Sierra, Lake Wildwood, and the Winchester project near Meadow Vista; all in California.
He was especially proud of his family's partnership participation in very large cadastral projects for the Plumas, Sierra, Tahoe, Eldorado and Stanislaus national forests and Siller Bros, Erickson Lumber and Sierra Pacific Land Holdings for nearly 40 years.
Finally, he was especially proud of his personal development standards in land use matters with special emphasis on his own commercial and professional buildings, such as the Brunswick East Project and residential owned, designed and built projects situated in Nevada County and Harney County, Ore. He also devoted his life to scholarships, to his extended family and the pursuit of knowledge.
He is survived by the love of his life, Glenda Partner. He is also survived by Jeannine, Eric Partner and Ian Partner, Marika, Carol and Heather. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Wade, Ty and Saige.
He is predeceased by his father, mother and brother.
