# 1 - - published in Herman Record, 10/26/1933

WOMAN, 98, ANSWERED FINAL CALL MONDAY

AGED LADY PASSES AWAY AT HOME OF HER SON AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS

Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Dorn Brewster who passed away Monday after a brief illness, were held at the home of her son, J.M. Brewster at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. C.C. Norlin read the funeral rites while Mrs. C.E. Johnson, Mrs. Geo. Lowe, Fred Robertson, and Chas. Gray with Mrs. J.H. Johnson accompanying at the piano, furnished the music.

Mrs. Brewster had come from Iowa only a few weeks ago to make her home with her son and family. They with a number of friends will greatly……………………………………………………………(unreadable)

Mr. and Mrs. Brewster accompanied Henry Truhlsen who took the body to Iowa early Wednesday morning. Services were held there and interment made at Alta Vesta, Ia.

Relatives from out of town who attended the funeral here were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Webster of Tekamah, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Deets of Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brewster, Chas. Brewster and Fred Brewster, all of Woodbine, Ia, and Roy Dunlap and son, Ellsworth, of Irwin, Ia.

Margaret Dorn was born at New Brunswick, Canada, on March 26, 1835 and died at Herman, Nebraska, on October 23, 1933. Her age was 98 years, 6 months and 28 days.

She was united in marriage to Milo Brewster on March 16, 1853, at Sparlin, Marshall county, Ill. To this union were born eight children. Five of these preceded her in death and three are living. They are Fred Brewster of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Lois Turnstall of Yakoma, Wash., and Mason Brewster of Herman, Neb.

She lived for the greater part of her life in the middle west. For the past fifteen years she made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Emma Baker of Clear Lake, Ia., who was taken in death in the spring of this year. Mrs. Brewster then came to Herman to make her home with her son, Mason Brewster.

Until her very last days she had an unusual vitality of body and mind for a person of her advanced age. She worked with her hands and preferred to wait on herself in moving about. Her mind was exceptionally clear and active.

She was taken ill on Friday a week ago and when she seemed on the way to recovery, suffered a light stroke of paralysis last Saturday.

When a little child she united with the Methodist Episcopal church in New Brunswick, Maine, as a member. Throughout her life she lived a devout and sincere Christian. Her lips often uttered the Lord’s Prayeer. She was a lover of poems and herself possessed a beauty of spirit that won the love of all who knew her. She made her life very useful and lived cheerfully.

She is survived by three of her children, twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-six great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

Burial was made at Alta Vesta, Ia., by the side of her husband who passed away on April 12, 1912.

# 2 - - printed in Pilot-Tribune, 11/2/1933

FUNERAL HELD FOR AGED HERMAN LADY

Mrs. Margaret Brewster passed away Monday, after a brief illness, at the home of her son, J.M. Brewster. She had come only a few weeks ago from Iowa to make her home with her son and family. Funeral services were held at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon at the Brewster home, Rev. C.C. Norlin officiating. Mrs. Geo. Lowe, Mrs. Emmett Johnson, Fred Robertson and C.R. Gray sang, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. J.H. Johnson. Out of town relatives who attended the services were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Webster of Tekamah, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brewster, Chas. Brewster and Fred Brewster and son, Ellsworth, of Irwin, Iowa; and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Deets of Blair. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster accompanied Henry Truhlsen, who left early Wednesday morning with the body, for Iowa. Services were held there and interment made at Alta Vesta, Iowa. Mrs. Brewster is survived by three children, twenty-one grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

# 3 - - printed in The Enterprise, 11/2/1933

Mrs. Margaret Dorn Brewster passed away at the home of her son, J.M. Brewster, Monday, Oct. 23 following a brief illness. Funeral rites were held at this home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock conducted by Rev. C.C. Norlin. The remains were taken to Iowa early Wednesday morning and services were held there. Burial was made at Alta Vesta, Iowa beside the husband who died in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster accompanied the body to Iowa. They returned home Friday. Mrs. Brewster at the time of her death was 98 years, 6 months and 28 days old. She was active and had been able to care for herself until the last days of her life. She had made her home with a daughter at Clear Lake, Ia., for the past fourteen years. She passed away last spring at her home there. Mrs. Brewster then came here a few weeks ago to live with her son and family. Surviving beside the son is another son, Fred Brewster of Cleveland, Ohio and a daughter, Mrs. Lois Turnstall of Yakima, Washington, twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.