Joe Henry Rooks

SGM Joe Henry Rooks of Enterprise, AL passed away Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at Flowers Hospital, at the age of 75.

Funeral Services will be held at 11:00AM, Friday, January 9, 2026 at Searcy Funeral Home and Crematory with a Military Chaplain officiating. Burial with Military Honors will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens with Searcy Funeral Home and Crematory directing. The family will receive friends from 10:00AM until service time.

Mr. Rooks was a workaholic who loved being outdoors. He loved to fish, do yard work and loved riding his Harley.

He retired from the US Army after 29 years service. He began as an aircraft mechanic and worked his way up the ranks to Sargent Major. Following his military Career, he worked as an aircraft maintenance supervisor with the aviation contractor at Ft. Rucker. He worked at Hanchey field on the Apache helicopters.

Mr. Rooks was preceded in death by his father, William Rooks; mother, Mary Ann Scofield Calhoun; 3 brothers, Willie Lewis Rooks, Harold Eugene Rooks, Pearl H. King Jr.; and grandson, Bruce Glover.

Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Joyce Rooks, Enterprise, AL; daughter, Melinda Rooks (Bruce), Monticello, GA; son, Joe Darnell Rooks (Sonya), Opelika AL, 2 sisters, Martha Ann Alexander, Oxford, GA, Linda Jennings, Covington, GA; 2 granddaughters, Trinity Rooks, Troy, AL and Tylen Rooks, Riverdale, GA; grandson, Sadarius Rooks (Taylor), Conyers, GA; 2 great-grandchildren, Koda Rooks and Winter Rooks of Conyers, GA.

The family wants to give a special thanks to Mrs. Persephonie Prettyman for being a wonderful caretaker.