Died 30 April 1997

Burial in Branson Cemetery at Loveland

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Sarah Beatrice (Bee) Brewer, 96, of Council Bluffs, Iowa and formerly of Loveland, Iowa died Wednesday, April 30, 1997 at the Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs.

Services were Monday at Hennessey-Hurley-Aman Funeral Home in Missouri Valley. Rev. Ton Wymer officiated. Burial was in the Branson Cemetery at Loveland.

Brewer was born Sept. 22, 1900 in Galesburg, Ill. to Benjamin F. and Lura (Forster) Butler. She lived in Loveland most of her life, riding the train to school in Missouri Valley. She married Myles D. Brewer in 1918. They continued to live in Loveland until his death in 1982. She wrote a column for the Missouri Valley Times for many years; worked at Blue Star Foods and ran a grocery store in Loveland where the door was never locked.

Survivors are her children, Reginald (Rex) Brewer of Missouri Valley; Jacqueline Wimer of Council Bluffs; John Brewer of Council Bluffs; Gwendolyn Little of Blair; a sister, Phyllis G. Wilkins of Omaha; 21 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Myles; sons, Morgan D. and Maxhall D. and a brother, John Butler.

Casketbearers were her grandsons and great-grandsons, Myles Wimer, Scott Roberts, T.J. Williams, David Spalding, Jacob Brewer, Elvin McFerrin, Zachary Brewer, Cameron Williams and William McFerrin. Honorary bearers were Ross McFerrin, Zachary Brewer, David Spaulding and Cameron Willliams.

Musicians were Marjorie Kraushaar and Amy Brewer.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~