Services for Jane Corrington Brewer, 87, were held at 11 am Thursday at First Baptist Church, Boyce Chapel, with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park. The Reverend Richard A. Biega and Reverend Dennis Banks officiated. Serving as honorary pallbearers were members of the Happy Coeds Sunday School Class at First Baptist Church. Visitation was 6- 8 pm Wednesday evening at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel. Memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice.

Mrs. Brewer died April 8, 2009. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, on August 25, 1921, she was the daughter of the late Milton James Corrington and Anne C. Bledsoe. As a young girl, she moved with her mother and brother, Jay, to Washington, D.C. She finished school at Central High School and attended the Corcoran School of Art before going to work with the U. S. Patent office in Washington D.C.

Christmas, 1941, found Jane travelling by train to Memphis for the holidays. On this same train sat a handsome young army lieutenant, John Brewer who was also going to Memphis to spend Christmas with his family. He bought her a Coke and the girl who loved life found the love of her life. They married in 1942, launching her career as an army wife, world traveler, and chief operations officer of the family Brewer. In this capacity, she moved the family from Ft. Belvoir, Virginia to Ft. Lewis, Washington, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Japan, Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, Germany, Arlington, Virginia, and finally to Ft. Jackson, SC.

Jane was not defined only by her role as an army wife. She was a poet, writer and great storyteller, never at a loss for words and an out- of- control Major League Baseball fan. When John retired from Ft. Jackson in the early 60s, Jane started writing the "Service Set", a column

in The State

paper. She was an active member of the Columbia Philharmonic

Orchestra's

Women's Symphony Association, the Columbia Music Festival Association, and Fort Jackson Officers Wives Club. She was a founding member of Ikebana International, Columbia Chapter 182, served as president twice, and at the time of her death served as adviser. Jane was a member of First Baptist Church for almost 50 years. She and John were members of the Happy Coeds Sunday School Class. Jane was the last remaining original member of the Thursday Bridge Club, which began in 1960.

Surviving are daughters and sons- in- law, Bonita Brewer Mullis and J. Marvin Mullis Jr., Holly Brewer Neuffer and Henry Happoldt Neuffer, Elizabeth Brewer Biega and The Reverend Richard A. Biega; grandchildren: Elizabeth Davis Stephens and husband Steve of Greensboro, N.C.; Courtney Davis Hallett and husband Andy; Thomas E. Neale IV and wife Sonia; John C. Neale; Audrey M. Neale; Jean M. Biega; Dawn Biega Hobbs and husband Chris; great- grandchildren: Paul, John, and Claire Stephens, and Sophie Hallett; brother, Jay Corrington of Joplin, Missouri.; and cousin, Ida Belle Barker.

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