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Note: NEWSCLIP, "Daily Camera," Boulder, CO (date unknown) German bombers flying over an advanced area of the Anzio beach-head droppped a shell in a first-aid station of the 45th Infantry Division, injuring Ernest L. Rooks, of Boulder, killing two other medical corps members and a number of patients, and injuring others. The bomb was dropped at an early hour on February 13, 1944. T/4 Rooks suffered a broken left leg, a shrapnel wound to his left hand and internal injury to his middle ear.
After a stay at the hospital at Anzio, Cpl. Rooks was moved to Naples. Upon his discharge after three months he was assigned to a 189th port battalion at Leghorn. He remained there until June when he was sent home. He received his discharge at Fort Logan July 18th and is now working for Western States Cutlery.
Rooks, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rooks, enlisted in Company F on September 9, 1940, and went with it to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. There he was transferred to the medical detachment and later sent to Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, Texas, for a course as medical technician. He returned to the 157th Regiment of the 45th and went to Sicily; later he participated in the Naples-Foggia and Rome-Arno campaigns.
He was awarded the Purple Heart, the Medical Combat badge, the Good Conduct, Pre-Pearl Harbor, and the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater ribbon with three bronze stars. He has four overseas service bars, serving abroad two years and 11 days.
T/4 Rooks has two brothers in service, Delbert, a first-class private with the Air Service Command in Germany, and Donald Rooks in the Air Corps in Oklahoma. --end--
OBITUARY, "Daily Camera," Boulder, CO, July 1989 - Ernest Lloyd Rooks
Ernest Lloyd Rooks of 4458 Hamilton Court, Boulder, died Sunday, July 30, at Boulder Community Hospital. He was 69.
He was born April 19, 1920, in Lafayette, the son of Charles Rooks and Effie Chapman Rooks.
Mr. Rooks worked for the National Bureau of Standards for 30 years.
He is survived by his wife, Elaine, of Boulder; two sons, Charles Rooks and Dean Rooks, both of Boulder; two daughters, Dianna McNutt of Houston and Susan Brandt of Boulder; three brothers, Charles Rooks, Lyndle Rooks and Delbert Rooks, all of Boulder; three sisters, Thelma Lauer of Arizona, Rena Rooks and Alta Hoover, both of Boulder; and five grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday at Crist Mortuary Chapel, 34th Street and Diagonal Highway, Boulder, with the Rev. Gilbert Zyzniewski of First United Methodist Church officiating. Services will conclude at the mortuary. --end--
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