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birth
benjy brooks was born in 1918 small town in north TX named louisville -
reading
she leardned to read by the age of four
" she opporated on her sisiters dolls with scissors" says a family member, -
graduation
she gratuated form highschool at the age of 19 -
teaching
she taught science for 4 years -
Opertation
in the late 1940s when the TX medical center was born she operation on more than "20,000 tiny babies" -
entering medicine
after teaching she disided to go to medical school and specialize in pediatrics -
joing hospitals
she joined the TX childrens hospital opperating as a surgeon -
1st surgeon
the houston pysican became the first woman pediatric surgeon in TX -
death
benjy brooks passes after a long life