Brooke Credit Corporation Qualifies Funeral Home Loans For Warehouse Facility

(Wednesday, August 30, 2006) - Michael Lowry,
president and chief executive officer of Brooke Credit Corporation, the
finance company subsidiary of Brooke Corporation (NASDAQ: BXXX), announced
Brooke Credit has reached an agreement with its warehouse lender, DZ BANK AG
Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank (DZ Bank), to expand its warehouse
facility to include funding funeral home loans. Brooke Credit secured a $50
million warehouse facility from DZ Bank in 2004 for funding insurance agency
loans, which was subsequently increased to $80 million in 2005.

"The inclusion of funeral home loans into the warehouse line represents a
significant milestone for this lending program, which was started in 2003,"
Lowry said. "We are pleased with the continued support of DZ Bank and the
confidence it has shown in our lending programs." Lowry noted that funeral
home lending became a part of Brooke Credit's insurance lending specialty
because many funeral directors sell insurance as part of their pre-planning
service.

About our company ... Brooke Credit Corporation is a subsidiary of Brooke
Corporation (NASDAQ: BXXX) that originates loans to insurance agencies and
related businesses. Brooke Credit's loan portfolio balances totaled
approximately $401.4 million on July 31, 2006. Loans have been mostly sold as
individual loans to participating lenders or as pooled loans to investors
through asset-backed securitizations.

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profitability and growth goals, uncertainties associated with market
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and their pricing, its ability to meet product demand, the availability of
funding sources, the exposure to market risks, uncertainties associated with
the development of technology, changes in the law and in economic, political
and regulatory environments, changes in management, the dependence on
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