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Brookshier remembered as ‘a happy warrior’

February 9th, 2010

Tom Brookshier was born during one of the worst blizzards in the history of Roswell, N.M., and yesterday, with the sidewalks just cleared from one of the worst in Philadelphia-area history, Brookshier was eulogized and remembered at the Ardmore Presbyterian Church before a throng of family, friends, teammates, and coworkers. The Rev. James Hodsden, pastor of the stately, 103-year-old stone church, noted that between those two displays of natural energy, Brookshier unleashed some energy on the world himself. Yes, that and endless rounds of combustive laughter that would erupt suddenly like a great geyser rumbling from deep beneath ground. “A happy warrior,” his daughter Betsy called him …

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