Robert H. Brooks Jr. (Little Bob) Bob Jr., a former Howard County Auxiliary Officer of the Year, died of accidental electrocution August 14, 2002 in Stanley, Virginia. He was 27. Bob was a master electrician with his family’s business, Alger Electric. He had gone to Stanley to repair lights and signs in a shopping center owned by his grandfather, Emmett H. Brooks. Bob was fixing a sign with four lamps when reaching for the fourth lamp brushed his hand against the metal and was shocked. As Bob began to tremble, his grandfather asked him what was wrong, he then collapsed and died. Bob loved to go to Stanley where his grandfather always owned property, he had just picked out a prime spot to build a cabin on his grandfather’ s 88 acre property on the side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. “Little Bob” was born September 9, 1974 at GBMC in Towson. Bob and his father spent many nights working on old cars at their Pikesville home. Bob’s last purchase was a 1923 Ford T-bucket he found while seeking a truck he and his father were looking to restore next. After his death the truck was found and sits still on Alger Electric’s property. Bob graduated from Pikesville High School and Western School of Technology in 1993. Although Bob always had a desire to become a police officer he would not turn his back on the family business, as a fix, in 1996, he became a Howard County Auxillary Officer and volunteered over 2000 hours. Prior to his death in 2002 he received the Three Star Auxillary Service Ribbon and, upon his death, he received a 30 car police escort for his funeral procession.

“We will always miss and love him, each day we strive to be a little more like him”