Nancy Gesinski Brookshire

Nancy Gesinski Brookshire age 65, while slumbering next to the love of 
her life, Dwight, peacefully left this world for a place of Glory on 
Friday morning December 15, 2017. 

Imagine the surprise of mother, Esther, and father, Edward Gesinski 
when they realized their parenting was beginning again after Jerry 
(18) and Carol (9).  Nancy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Nancy 
attended and graduated from St. Joan Antida High School, where she 
filled her days with twirling batons and skating of the ice and roller 
variety. 

A few years later in a platinum blonde wig, Nancy married Larry John 
of Milwaukee, which brought a curly haired, Christine, then the 
perfect baby boy, Bradley, into the world. Both of whom she’d impart 
her amazing work ethic, among many other admirable traits.  Throughout 
the adolescence of Christine & Brad, Nancy played the role of Room 
Mom, Team Mom, Girl Scout Leader, and Y Club Advisor, just to name a 
few. 

Many of the early years of her marriage took place on the back of 
their Kawasaki or Honda Gold Wing motorcycles visiting places like 
Kansas City, Mount Rushmore, and camping at Eagle River. 

On the 20th of December 1992 Nancy married Dwight Brookshire, the man 
that would become her partner in crime for the remainder of her days. 
Side by side for 25 years they served each other, their families, 
their church (from youth to seniors), their USPS co-workers, and any 
other needy soul they met along the way. Dwight was a good sport to 
any crazy idea Nancy might have devised, up to even playing a butler 
for the tea parties she would throw for the little girls in the 
family. Nancy’s love for Dwight’s children ran deep and strong as it 
did for her own.  To them, they were all simply their kids. 

Nancy continued her love of traveling with Dwight. Together they went 
to DC, Reno, Buffalo, Nashville, Grapevine, New Orleans, Charleston, 
and National Harbor, Maryland, just to name a few. 

The one thread that ran through Nancy’s entire life was the role she 
played in the kitchen.  Her love language spilled out over the top of 
boiling pots and clung to wooden spoons like magic. If you came near 
her, you would be fed. What we all learned over time was that while we 
thought she was feeding our appetite, it was our souls she was filling 
with love and nutrition it needed. Food was her ministry and humankind 
was her church. 

Nancy is preceded in death by parents Edward and Esther Gesinski, 
brother, Jerry, father in law, Bud Brookshire, and children Scott 
Brookshire and Christopher Brookshire. 

Survivors include: husband, Eddie Dwight Brookshire; children, 
Christine (John) Fuller, Brad (Tara) John, Tammy Braswell, Melanie 
Brookshire Simmons, and Corey Brookshire; grandchildren: Jillian 
(Matt) Warman, Amanda Braswell, Danielle Braswell, Shane Simmons, 
Callie Simmons, Shelbie Brookshire, Gabe Fuller, and Katlyn Fowler; 
and great grandchild, Iris Warman;   mother in law, Ola Brookshire; 
sister, Carol Hinman and numerous nieces and nephews. 

Funeral Services will be held 11:00 am Monday, December 18, 2017 at 
Harmony Hall Baptist Church. The family will receive friends Sunday, 
December 17, 2017 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 
p.m. at Ward’s Funeral Home. 

In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to: Harmony Hall Baptist Church, 
4160 Mangum Mill Rd, Gainesville, Georgia 30507 OR National Multiple 
Sclerosis Society, Georgia Chapter, 950 East Paces Ferry Road NE, 
Suite 110, Atlanta, GA 30326, or online at 
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/nancybrookshire