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Mary Elizabeth Gillen

Female 1922 - 2004  (81 years)


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  • Name Mary Elizabeth Gillen  [1, 2
    Birth 20 Apr 1922  Saginaw, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Also Known As Beth 
    Race White  [1, 2
    Name Mary Elizabeth Brewer  [3
    Residence 1930  Precinct 6, Hood, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Age: 7; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Granddaughter 
    Residence 1935  Granbury, Hood, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Residence 1 Apr 1940  Granbury, Hood, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Age: 17; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Stepdaughter 
    Death 26 Jan 2004  Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • Mary Elizabeth Or Beth Brewer, 81
      Obituaries
      Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - Thursday, January 29, 2004
      BENBROOK -- Mary Elizabeth "Beth" Brewer, 81, a devoted wife and mother, passed away Monday, Jan. 26, 2004.

      Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth. Entombment: Greenwood Mausoleum. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Greenwood Funeral Home.

      Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Twosome Class Scholarship Fund at First United Methodist Church.

      Beth was born April 22, 1922, in Saginaw. She grew up in Granbury and graduated from Granbury High School. She worked as a secretary in Fort Worth until 1943. She served as a Navy Wave from 1943 to 1946. She attended TSCW (now Texas Woman's University in Denton) and earned a B.S. degree in business. She worked for Smith Cotton Company and DeGolyer McNaughton in Dallas. Beth ministered to many people. She was a sincere, sweet, tender, loving and generous person. She never said an unkind thing about anyone. She loved sunshine, birds, reading, beautiful flowers, art, music, bridge, and "42" with The XYZ Group. She loved her family, relatives and friends.

      Survivors: Husband of 45 years, Ted Brewer; daughter, Elizabeth Golemon and her husband, Dale; brother, Tommy Gillen and his wife, Carol, of Grand Prairie; sister-in-law, Frances Summers of Granbury; many nieces and nephews; and her faithful companion, Micki.

      Greenwood Funeral Home
      3100 White Settlement Road, (817) 336-0584

      Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - Thursday, January 29, 2004

      CITE THIS RECORD
      Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/1006747EF228C07E-1006747EF228C07E : accessed 4 September 2016) Mary Elizabeth Or Beth Brewer
    Burial 30 Jan 2004  Greenwood Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I34715  tng Genealogy

    Father Rhett Goode Gillen,   b. 13 Jan 1898, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Mar 1976, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Alwita Miller,   b. 12 Jul 1898, Ravenna, Fannin, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jan 1981, Granbury, Hood, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F12423  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Living 
    Children 
     1. Living
    Family ID F12422  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 17; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Stepdaughter - 1 Apr 1940 - Granbury, Hood, Texas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 26 Jan 2004 - Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S337] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;).
      Year: 1930; Census Place: Precinct 6, Hood, Texas; Roll: 2355; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0008; Image: 582.0; FHL microfilm: 2342089
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=62862251&indiv=try
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      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=62862251&indiv=try

    2. [S474] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
      Year: 1940; Census Place: Granbury, Hood, Texas; Roll: T627_4067; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 111-1
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1940usfedcen&h=155781881&indiv=try
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      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1940usfedcen&h=155781881&indiv=try

    3. [S541] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8328945.
      Record for Mary Elizabeth Brewer
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FindAGraveUS&h=101773577&indiv=try
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FindAGraveUS&h=101773577&indiv=try