OBITUARY
Edgar Tearl Brooks, LT(SS) (ret)

Perch Base Life and Holland Club Member Ed Brooks, LT(SS) (ret), passed away onto Eternal Patrol, Monday, May 20, 2024.
Our condolences to his wife Lee Ann, family and friends.
Ed joined the Navy in 1959 and left in 1978. He served and qualified on submarines on the USS Sea Leopard (SS‑483) as an Interior Communications Technician ICFN(SS) in the Deck Division in 1959. He then went on to Naval Nuclear Power School, and subsequently became a Nuclear Power Plant Operator on board the USS Halibut (SSGN‑587) in the Electrical Division from 1961 through 1964. Ed was commissioned as a Warrant Officer (WO1) in the Electrical Division while assigned to the USS Guardfish (SSN‑612) from 1966 to 1967 as a plankowner and member of the pre-commissioning crew. His next assignment was at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, ME, as a Nuclear Ship Superintendant from 1967 to 1968, and was promoted to Ensign when assigned to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, as a Nuclear Engineer in the Naval Reactors Representative's Office from 1968 to 1971. He became a LTjg while assigned to the Pearl Harbor Submarine Base as the Base Radiological Control Officer. He was again promoted to LT while assigned to the Submarine Tender USS Hunley (AS‑31) where he served as the Nuclear Repair Officer, QA Officer and Engineer Officer from 1973 to 1977. Ed retired from the Navy in 1978 after serving at Naval Station Charleston, SC, as the Team Leader of the Human Resource Management Detachment.
Ed joined Perch Base in March 1998 and served as our Base Secretary from 2001 to 2006. He participated as a Charter Member of the Gudgeon Base in Prescott Valley, AZ in 2004. At that time, he continued his membership with Perch Base, but became the Base Secretary of Gudgeon Base from 2004 to 2009, also served as the Gudgeon Base Treasurer in 2006, and became the Base Commander of Gudgeon Base in 2008. Ed continued to regularly attend Perch Base meetings as a dual member.
Ed Brooks was well known within USSVI as a master carver. He routinely carved dolphins for raffles and auctions to raise money for the Bases and the USSVI Charitable Fund, which he also was a supporter. He was granted USSVI National Commander's Award, also know as the Robert Link Award at the 2005 USSVI National Convention for his Charitable Fund actions.
Ed was interred at the Prescott National Cemetery, VA Medical Center 500 HIGHWAY 89 N. PRESCOTT, AZ 86313 in Section J Row A Site 28.