Mission president in Zimbabwe killed, wife injured in car accident
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The president of the Zimbabwe Harare Mission, Pres. George T. Brooks, was killed July 26 in an car-truck accident near Kwekwe, Zimbabwe.
His wife, Lillis Remington Brooks, suffered serious multiple injuries. She was treated first in a nearby hospital and then transferred to a hospital in Harare. The Church Public Communications Department reported July 30 that arrangements were being made to transfer Sister Brooks to a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.Pres. Brooks, 64, was a retired Utah educator who had been serving as mission president for less than one month.
In 1989, he and his wife were called to serve as missionaries in Kenya; after a few months in Africa, they were transferred to the England Coventry Mission. Earlier this year, he was called to preside over the mission in Zimbabwe and assumed his new responsibilities July 1.
Church Missionary Department officials reported that Pres. Brooks was killed instantly in a collision between his car and a truck. Details of the accident were not immediately available.
The mission leaders had been longtime residents of Salt Lake City, but had lived in Bountiful, Utah, for three years before being called to serve as missionaries in Kenya.
Pres. Brooks recently retired after having served as acting superintendent of schools, personnel administrator, principal and teacher in the Salt Lake City School District.
He served as president of the Salt Lake Sugar House Stake for eight years and was also a high councilor, bishop and Temple Square guide.
