Lucille Edith Edbrooke, 77, a secretary and homemaker who always placed others’ needs before her own, died of a stroke Thursday, June 8, in her Rogers Park home. Born in a Dutch community on the South Side, Mrs. Edbrooke moved to Evanston as a girl and graduated from Evanston Township High School. She rode horses in high school and while attending Monmouth College in Monmouth, Ill., said her son Jim. She was married and divorced, and, in 1965, as a single mother raising two boys, she became the full-time secretary for the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority in Evanston. Mrs. Edbrooke enjoyed the job because she worked flexible hours and liked being around students, her son said. She enjoyed decorating and often bought and sold furniture to change the look of her home. “She always made sure everybody else was taken care of before she was,” her son said. “She took care of her parents when they retired and her aunt, and she took care of my brother, who was living with her up until she died.” After the sorority office moved about 1980, Mrs. Edbrooke worked several other part-time secretarial jobs, her son said. “She never was one to sit around at home,” he said. Other survivors include her son Greg; sister, Elanor Meyers; and a granddaughter. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Monday in Donnellan Family Funeral Home, 1571 Maple Ave., Evanston. A memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. in the funeral home.
