Clyde H. Brewster 1885-1962

BREWSTER, KINGSBURY, BEER, FINN

Posted By: Karen DaPra (email)
Date: 2/15/2002 at 18:01:47

CLYDE BREWSTER

KEOSAUQUA. -- Funeral services for Clyde H. Brewster, 77, of near Keosauqua, a farmer, who died Saturday at his home following a heart attack, were held today at 2 p.m. at the Center Chapel Methodist Church. Elder Herbert C. Shaw of Cantril officiated. Burial was in Center Chapel Cemetery.

He was the son of Hardin and Mary Frances Kingsbury Brewster and was born near Keosauqua Jan. 24, 1885. He was married Oct. 28, 1906, to Retta Beer of Keosauqua, who survives. A brother, Howard Brewster of Boulder, Colo., and one sister, Mrs. Charley Finn of Mount Pleasant, also survive. He was preceded in death by six brothers and one sister.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 169 of Obit Book B found in the Van Buren County, IA Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in July 1999. Name of newspaper not given, however a handwritten date of 1962 is written on the obit.)

Clyde was a second cousin of mine. He died 22 Dec 1962. I am interested in corresponding with anyone researching this line.

[originally posted 31 Aug 1999]