Wilda Jean Brewer's Obituary
Late Wednesday evening, December 5, 2018, Wilda Jean (Truitt) Brewer passed away at 87 after visiting all day with family. Wilda lived a full life and leaves behind a large family and many friends. She will be missed.She was born Wilda Jean Truitt in Topeka, Kansas the youngest child of Olin & Margarete and sister to brother Forrest and twins Ann & Alyce. Wilda and her family moved to Dallas in the 1940’s where Wilda graduated from Highland Park High School in 1950, GO SCOTTIES. She was active in intramural sports and played violin in the orchestra. She attended North Texas State University (now The University of North Texas) before marrying Claude Brewer JR and sharing the next 62 years of love, laughter and good times until Claude’s death in 2013.Wilda was in in Europe for two years with her husband who was stationed in Germany in the early 1950’s with the United States Air Force. They spent many weekends touring the great cities of Europe by train and automobile with their first daughter Cindy and just made it back to the states before second daughter Sue was born just 50 days after their return.Wilda was always interested in gardening and crafts of all types. She enjoyed many years with friends as a member of the Four Seasons Garden Club. She was an active member of East Dallas Christian Church with her family and never missed one of her boy’s athletic events or her daughter’s recitals or sporting events. Wilda was always a sports fan, she played 3rd base on the East Dallas Christian Church DCAA Girls Softball team who were City Champs in 1957. Wilda loved to fish on the barge her husband and friends built at the family’s lake house on Lake Lavon when the children were young. She would spend hours beach combing for shells, odd bits of glass, old glass bottles and the occasional arrow head. She and husband Claude enjoyed a two-week Caribbean cruise in 1970, won by Claude in a sales contest. There were great times on the family vacations as they visited the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Carlsbad Caverns, Red Rock Canyon, the cliff dwelling Indian ruins, Hoover Dam, the Palisades in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle and later in life the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park.Wilda is survived by her children, Cindy Davis and spouse Michael, Susan Galanopoulos and spouse John, Claude Brewer 111 and spouse Kelli, Chuck Brewer and spouse Claudia, Connie Ohm and spouse Michael; as well as grandchildren Alec and Rhiannon Davis, Nikolaos and Alex Galanopoulos, Kathryn Yokum and spouse Anthony, Brandon and Chase Brewer, Suzanne Brewer, Trevor Clarke and spouse Brittany, Madelyn Ohm and great grandchildren Cora Davis and Lily Yokum. Visitation will be from 6:00 pm to 8:00 p.m., Tues., Dec. 18, 2018 at the Restland Funeral Home. Her celebration of life will be 2:30p.m. Wed., Dec. 19, 218 in the Restland Funeral Home Memorial Chapel.
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