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   Ruth Madge Brewer

   

   Ruth Madge Brewer, 80, of Amarillo, died Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001.

   

   Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. today in Westminster Presbyterian

   Church   with  the  Rev.  Jeff  Conway,  senior  pastor,  officiating.

   Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St.

   

   Mrs.  Brewer  was  born Aug. 11, 1921, in Carter, Okla., to William E.

   and Myrtle Jackson. She was raised in Carter and graduated from Carter

   High  School.  She  married Johnie Brewer of Sayre, Okla., on Dec. 26,

   1944.  After  World War II they moved to Dumas and then to Amarillo in

   1952,  where  they  raised their sons. She was a member of Westminster

   Presbyterian Church for almost 50 years.

   

   During  her  working  career  she  worked  for  several retail grocery

   businesses  and  Adams  Plumbing.  She  was  a  volunteer and later an

   employee at Meals on Wheels where she received numerous honors for her

   service  to  her clients. She was a mentor to area schoolchildren. She

   was  a  devoted wife, mother and grandmother and was adored by all who

   knew her.

   

   Survivors  include her husband; two sons, J. Michael Brewer and family

   of  Prairie  Village, Kan., and W. Mark Brewer and family of Amarillo;

   two brothers, T. Max Jackson of Elk City, Okla., and K. Adrian Jackson

   of Moore, Okla.; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

   

   The  family  suggests  memorials be to Meals on Wheels, 219 W. Seventh

   Ave.,  Amarillo,  TX  79101 or Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice, P.O. Box

   950, Amarillo, TX 79176.

   

   Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 6, 2001