{"id":1395,"date":"2015-07-23T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2015-07-23T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:34:41","slug":"barbara-lacher-brooks-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/2015\/07\/barbara-lacher-brooks-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Lacher Brooks &#8217;54"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><\/h2>\n<p>Barbara Lacher Brooks, 82, of Zionsville, Ind., passed away Nov. 28, 2014. She was born in Minneapolis, the daughter of Benjamin and Clara Lacher. She was a graduate of St. Olaf College. Barbara was deeply committed to her faith, her family, and her community. She was an active member of the College Park Church, was a Precept Ministries teacher for many years, a member of the choir, and served at the church&#8217;s Welcome Desk. She served as a member of the Zionsville Community School Board and participated as a volunteer leader for numerous charitable organizations. She was an avid sculling rower for many years and a member of Sons of Norway. She was most notably her family&#8217;s biggest cheerleader.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara was preceded in death by her parents; a son, David, who died of children&#8217;s leukemia; and her twin brother, Stanton R. Lacher. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Elton H. Brooks; sons, Paul Brooks and wife Diane, and Michael Brooks and wife Vera; daughters, Anne and Katherine Brooks; and her grandchildren, Katie, Carly, Danic, and Eliana Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Lacher Brooks, 82, of Zionsville, Ind., passed away Nov. 28, 2014. She was born in Minneapolis, the daughter of Benjamin and Clara Lacher. She was a graduate of St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","tag-obituary"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}