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- Upon graduation from Flora High School in 1944, Brock entered the United States Navy. After his discharge from the Navy he married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Jean Weir, on December 29, 1946. The young couple moved to Greenville, Illinois, where he entered Greenville College.
In May of 1950 Brock graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech. He went on from there to earn a Master's degree from Indiana State University and his doctorate in speech and rhetoric from the University of Illinois. For eighteen years he was employed at Greenville College as a professor of speech and later as Dean of Academic Affairs.
Besides his work at the college he was a member of the Greenville City Council and also held leadership positions in his church where he taught an adult Sunday School class, was a member of the deacon board and sang in the adult choir. In 1969 he accepted a position as the Dean of the School of Fine Arts at Lamar University and the family made the move from Illinois to Beaumont, Texas.
The family joined Calder Baptist Church where he served on the deacon board, taught an adult Sunday School class, was a member of the adult choir as well as a number of committees. Besides these local responsibilities he also was appointed to the Texas Baptist Christian Education Coordinating Board. Among his many community service activities, he served as chairman of the Beaumont Library Commission and as president of the Southeast Texas Arts Council.
He had served on the board of directors of the Jefferson Theatre Preservation Society, Young Audiences of Beaumont, Texas Library Association Bicentennial Committee, Beaumont Habitat for Humanity, Beaumont Sister City Commission and was president of the Rotary Club of Beaumont. At Lamar University he was instrumental in securing approval for a Lamar radio station, KVLU, and helped raise funds for the College of Fine Arts through the establishment of the Friends of the Arts. In March of 1992 he was named the interim President of Lamar University and then continued on as an assistant to the president until his retirement in 2005. Brock was the winner of the Julie and Ben Rogers Community Service Award and the Public Citizen of the Year in 1982.
Brock and Barbara were married sixty-two years and raised six children, all of whom attended Lamar University. A son, Geoffrey Brentlinger, preceded him in death in 1989.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara; three sons and two daughters; Gregory and Dorothy Brentlinger, Gary and Dee Alice Brentlinger, Rick and Rebecca Brentlinger Ray, Garth and Terri Brentlinger, Bobbie Brentlinger and ten grandchildren.
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1926 - 2009 (82 years)
