Erica Marie Brooks

They whisper to her, “You can't withstand the storm.” She whispered back, "I am the storm!" Erica Marie Brooks was born in Newark Delaware June 18, 1986 where we lived until she was 11 years old. She grew up in Belleview, Florida, went to the Belleview Santos’s elementary Belleview middle school, and graduated from Belleview high School in 2005. She had many friends in and around our neighborhood. Crazy (in a good way) bunch of kids. The bus stop was one of the largest in Belleview. , we loved them all. She's a great mother, wonderful daughter and a great friend and confidant to whoever needed her ear or shoulder. She gave the best hugs, the tight squeezy kind. I am lucky to have been chosen to be her mother. She loved her children; she was a single parent who took on the responsibility of raising her son, Conner and young daughter, Knena without help and without whining about it. When she was a little girl, she was on the local cheerleading squad up north in DE and won first place in first grade individual competition. When Erica attended Belleview high School, she was on the flag squad and was very proud of her school. She loved deeply, she loved her parents, Clarence and Carole Brooks, and her sister, Star, deeply, and she loved her younger brother, Ryan, immensely along with his daughter, Blakelee, her first niece, who she spoiled a lot. Many cousins, aunts and uncles also survive her. She gave her whole heart and we loved her. She was trying to better her life by going to school for medical billing. To improve her life, to improve the life of her children. To give them everything they needed and deserved. She loved sugar skulls and drawing. She loved trying different makeup techniques, but she didn't need that because she was beautiful all by herself.