Edward Brooke II survived his wife by five years , dying at 77 , on November 20 , 1940 . He slipped and fell into a half-filled bathtub of scalding water , and died of burns at Reading Hospital . His viewing was held at the mansion : " Last evening hundreds of friends and former associates in various organizations filed through the drawing room of the Brooke residence to pay their last respects . " His obituary listed sons George III , Edward Jr. ( now divorced ) and Charles living at home . George III served as executor for his father 's estate , which took several years to settle . In 1942 , at age 54 , George III married Virginia Muhlenberg ( 1897 &ndash; 1999 ) , an artist and interior designer , and a distant cousin . She initially moved into the mansion with him ( and his two brothers and seven servants ) , but the couple settled in Wyomissing , a wealthy suburb of Reading , several miles upriver from Birdsboro . George III served as a delegate to the 1944 Republican National Convention , and remained active in Berks County politics until his death in 1967 . His brothers retired to Daytona Beach , Florida
1944 Republican National Convention
1944 Republican National Convention
Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania)