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==Personal life== Brooks was an evangelical Christian who was active with [[InterVarsity Christian Fellowship]].<ref name="unc">[http://cs.unc.edu/people/frederick-p-brooks-jr/ Faculty Biography] at UNC.</ref> <!-- Along with his wife Nancy, he was instrumental in forming [[Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill]]. He chaired the school's initial Headmaster search committee, and later served on the board of trustees. He spent a year in 2012โ2013 to start up an advanced physics course in the Upper School. At the time of his death, he was serving on the Board of Trustees.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} --> Brooks married Nancy Lee Greenwood in 1956. They have three children.<ref name="TuringAward"/> He named his first son after [[Kenneth E. Iverson]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Brooks |first1=Frederick P. |date=August 2006 |title=The Language, the Mind, and the Man |url=http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10001240 |journal=Vector |volume=22 |access-date=March 16, 2018 |number=3}}</ref> Brooks died on November 17, 2022, at age 91. He had been in poor health following a stroke.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lohr |first1=Steve |date=November 23, 2022 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html |title=Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91 |access-date=November 24, 2022 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Grรผner |first1=Sebastian |date=November 18, 2022 |title=8-Bit-Byte-Erfinder Fred Brooks gestorben |url=https://www.golem.de/news/nachruf-8-bit-byte-erfinder-fred-brooks-gestorben-2211-169865.html |access-date=November 18, 2022 |website=[[Golem.de]] |language=de}}</ref><ref name="UNC2022">{{cite news |title=Remembering Department Founder Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. |website=UNC Computer Science |date=November 18, 2022 |url=https://cs.unc.edu/news-article/remembering-department-founder-dr-frederick-p-brooks-jr/ |access-date=November 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221119100810/https://cs.unc.edu/news-article/remembering-department-founder-dr-frederick-p-brooks-jr/ |archive-date=November 19, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Frederick P. Brooks Jr., 1931โ2022 |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/heraldsun/name/frederick-brooks-obituary?id=37962920 |access-date=November 20, 2022 |work=[[The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina)|The Herald Sun]] |date=November 20, 2022 |format=Legacy.com}}</ref>
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