Born in Greenville County, he was a son of the late Joseph Franklin and Nettie Bagwell Brooks. He was a faithful member of Columbia Baptist Church where he had served as a Sunday School Teacher for more than 50 years and as a deacon. He was formerly employed at Wyandottte Wool Mill of Conestee and retired from Service Machine Shop. Curtis was a member of the Country Boys Band, and enjoyed playing at numerous Nursing Homes and Churches over the years. He loved his family, his church, his guitar and music, farming and especially his grandchildren.

Surviving in addition to his loving wife of 64 years of the home are, five daughters, Betty Cain(Winford, Kathy Campbell(Allan), Janice Pruitt(Randy), Wanda Bolden(Chuck), and Teresa Curtis Davis(Mike), a brother, David Brooks, six sisters, Frances Gambrell, Elizabeth Smith, Doris Welborn, Audrey Caldwell, Virginia Beck, and Shirley Holland, eight grandchildren, Curtis Campbell, April Pruitt, Krystal Mahon, Tiffany Campbell, James Pruitt, Michael Davis, Matthew Bolden, and Daniel Davis, and six great-grandchildren, Evan, Brandon, Dylan, Justin, Lexie, and Charli.

Funeral services will be held at 3 P.M. Monday, July 15, 2013 at Columbia Baptist Church with Rev. Scotty Hendricks, Rev. Carroll Caldwell, and Rev. Phil Dyar officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 2 P.M. Burial will follow in Greenville Memorial Gardens.

The family is at the home, and will receive friends from 6 to 8 P.M. Sunday at Pruitt Funeral Home. Online condolences may be made at www.ParkerWhitePruitt.com. Parker-White-Pruitt Funeral Home and Crematory in charge of arrangements.