Michael David Brooks passed away Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, after fighting a courageous battle with cancer for six months at the age of 73.
He was born Aug. 19, 1947, in Orofino, raised in Peola, Wash., on the Albert Dick cattle ranch in Dry Gulch, where there were lots of rank horses to break and cattle to tend to. After high school, he was proud to be a flight mechanic in the United States Air Force. Highly accomplished at nearly everything he did, be it leather projects, making knives, welding (could fix most anything with a âhot glue gun or blue-tip torchâ), finishing/refinishing gunstocks and reloading. He could do it, as well as teach others how, especially capable as a mentor to the young in hunting, fishing and camping. When Mike fixed it or made it and it came time to settle up, his comment: âIâm not in it for the money, your smile is more important than dollars.â