Vera Louise (Parkhurst) Brewer

Vera Louise (Parkhurst) Brewer was born January 21, 1913 in Eufaula to Roy E. and Lottie (Plotner) Parkhurst. 

She attended Eufaula schools and graduated in 1936 from Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater.  She was a lifelong educator from 1937-1978 with the exception of several years during World War II when she was an inspector at Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa. 

She taught at Northeastern State College in Tahlequah, Broken Arrow, East Central and Catoosa High Schools.  She retired in 1978 after 36 years in the Union School District.  She was a past Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star in Catoosa. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, James Guy Brewer, Jr.; parents; sister Valera L. Williams; brothers: Roy Carl and C. Bert Parkhurst; and niece Terri Alicia Vinson.  She is survived by her nieces: Charlotte A. Poe and her husband John, Patricia S. Berkey, Kaye E. Absher and her husband Curtis, Carol K. Caviness; nephews: Steven B. Parkhurst and his wife Linda, Timothy C. Parkhurst and his wife Sarah, John L. and Thomas P. Williams, Jeffrey R. Graddy and his wife Shelly; and many other great and great-great-nieces and nephews.  “Auntie B” was always there for us and we all adored her.

Service: 11 A.M. Tuesday, August 26 at the Chapel; interment: 3:30 P.M. Greenwood Cemetery in Eufaula. 

Kennedy-Amis-Kennard Funeral Service of Broken Arrow, 918.251.5331, www.kakfs.com.