Marriages
She met her first husband, Arthur Jacob "Art" Peavey, Jr. of Twin Falls, while they were students at the university in Moscow. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity (across the street from KKG) and also graduated in 1929. He drowned in a boating accident on the Snake River in 1941 and wasn't found for ten days, which left her a widow in her early thirties with two young children. A short time later her mother died, so she moved her family to Washington, D.C., where her father was serving in the U.S. Senate. Her second husband, C. Wayland "Curly" Brooks, was a U.S. Senator from Illinois. They were married in May 1946 for eleven years, until his death from a massive heart attack in 1957. After he left the Senate in January 1949, they had lived in the Chicago area.
Brooks took over her father’s Idaho sheep ranch after his death in 1945 and ran it until her son took it over in 1961. He said "She was just as much at home with rancher as she was with presidents." Her Idaho license plate read "MTN MARY".
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