Anna Jean Brookins, 78, of Oak Hill, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. She was at her daughter\u2019s home in Hilliard, Ohio surrounded by her loving family.<\/p>\n
She was born Aug. 21, 1940, a daughter of the late William Leonard and Mary (Allen) Leonard. She is survived by her husband and the love of her life, Evan \u201cIke\u201d Brookins. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this past October.<\/p>\n
Anna attended Oak Hill High School (Class of 1958), was a homemaker and attended both the Old Country Church Tabernacle, and Winchester Community Church. She and Ike resided in both Columbus and Hilliard, Ohio for 38 years, before returning to Oak Hill after Ike\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sisters, Carrie Leffingwell and Mary “Sis” Leonard Smith; and her brother, Charles “Bud” Leonard.<\/p>\n
In addition to her husband \u201cIke,\u201d she is survived by one son, Dennis (Pamm) Brookins, of Hilliard; one daughter, Cheryl (Jim) Shanks, of Hilliard; four grandchildren, Ashley Shanks, of Hilliard, Jillianne (Jon) Stephens, of Hilliard, Eric (Jessica) Brookins, of Dublin, OH and Brandon (Tricia) Brookins, of Mechanicsburg, OH. Also surviving are 11 great-grandchildren, Nevaeh, Jackson, Jett, Jeric, Jorja, Jaely, Claire, Andrew, David, Lilly and Isaac; three sisters, Norma (Ronald) Gall, Katheryn Leonard, and Dora (Sammy Leffingwell) Sharp; and a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.<\/p>\n
Friends may call Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Lewis & Gillum Funeral Home of Oak Hill. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018 at the funeral home with Pastor Rondall Walker officiating. Burial will follow in C.M. Cemetery. Online condolences may be sent to www.lewisgillum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anna Jean Brookins, 78, of Oak Hill, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. She was at her daughter\u2019s home in Hilliard, Ohio surrounded by her loving family. She was born Aug. 21, 1940, a daughter of the late William Leonard and Mary (Allen) Leonard. She is survived by her husband and the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9188,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions\/9188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}