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A funeral procession for a Tennessee man who drove a college bus for bigger than 57 years included the last bus he drove earlier than retiring — Hawkins County Schools bus no. 89
December 30, 2019, 10: 55 PM
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CHURCH HILL, Tenn. — A weekend funeral procession for a Tennessee man who drove a college bus for bigger than 57 years included the last bus he drove earlier than retiring — Hawkins County Schools bus no. 89.
Robert Brooks, who was additionally a farmer, began utilizing for the county colleges in 1958 after but one more driver quit and a college board member approached him regarding the job, the Kingsport Times News reports.
In 2010, with 52 consecutive years of utilizing below his belt, he beat the file for the longest-serving bus driver within the Volunteer Negate. When Brooks hit 56 years of service in 2014, he was inducted into the Tennessee College Bus Driver Hall of Reputation.
Brooks died Christmas Day in his home at the age of 84.
Bus no. 89 was the last one Brooks drove earlier than retiring in 2016. It is no longer in usual service but tranquil operates as soon as almost at the moment when other buses are being repaired, Hawkins County college bus driver Darrell Lawson acknowledged.
Lawson drove Brooks’ family to the cemetery on the no. 89 bus on Saturday. Mourners, including outmoded college students whom Brooks drove over time, lined the route of the irregular funeral procession earlier than becoming a member of the family at the cemetery.
“He would were so proud,” Brooks’ widow, Janice Brooks, acknowledged by tears as she prepared to board the bus.
