BREWER, Edith (Moore) 1914-1953

BREWER, MOORE, ANDERSON, THOMAS, BROWN, GRIFFIN, ROBINSON, MCDONALD, AUSTIN

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 7/1/2013 at 22:08:25

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, August 18, 1953]

Mrs. Edith Brewer, 39, former resident of Waterloo, died at 2 a. m. Tuesday in a Des Moines hospital of a heart ailment.

The former Edith Moore was born June 25, 1914, in Waterloo, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Moore. She was married first to James Anderson. They were, divorced. She then was married to William Brewer. She had made her home in Des Moines for 14 years.

Survivors include her husband; five daughters: Mrs. Helen Thomas, Marcella Anderson and Barbara, Betty Lou and Edith Brewer, all of Des Moines; four sons: Roland Jonathon, Orlando and a one-month-old baby, all of Des Moines; eight sisters: Mrs. Gladys Brown, 105 Bates St., Miss Ruth Moore and Miss Ida May Moore, both of 626 Mobile St., Mrs. Ollie Griffin, 327 Cottage St., Mrs. Chelsey Robinson, Ypsilanti, Mich.; Mrs. Alzora McDonald, Des Moines, Mrs. Vernita Brown, St. Paul, Minn., and Mrs. Venola Austin, Milwaukee, Wis., and five brothers: Clyde Moore, 117 Ash St., Bennie Moore, 511 Dane St., James Moore, 625 Iowa, Lonnie Moore, 123 Ash St., and Merle Moore, stationed with the army in Germany.

Funeral arrangements are pending in Des Moines.