Brooks, Ernelle, 1916-1976.

Lacy Ernelle Brooks (1916-1976), native of Greenville, N.C., attended Mars Hill College and East Carolina Teachers College. She studied nursing at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, and subsequently became a supervisor of public health nursing in Alexandria, Va. The Baptist Foreign Mission Board appointed Brooks as a nursing missionary in the Idi Aba Baptist Girls' School in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1947. Brooks taught and practiced nursing at Idi Aba until 1960.

From the description of Ernelle Brooks papers, 1947-1960, undated [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 652518804