Dessie Glee (Bates) Brewer (2000)

BATES, BREWER, BROOKER, KALDENBERG, LEEPER, PETTIT

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 1/17/2025 at 19:07:29

The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Thursday, January 6, 2000
Page 35, Column 3

DESSIE BREWER – Des Moines

Dessie Glee Brewer, 75, of the 200 block of Southeast Thornton Avenue died of a gunshot wound Saturday at home. The death has been ruled a homicide. The body was cremated, and memorial services were held Tuesday at Southtown Funeral Home.

Mrs. Brewer was born in Macksburg and had lived in Des Moines many years. She was a homemaker.

Surviving are a son, James of Des Moines; a daughter, Marlys Kaldenberg of Slater; three sisters, J. Hope Brooker of Des Moines, Evelyn Leeper of Greenfield and Esther Pettit of Stuart; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
________________________

Transcriber's note: Maiden name taken from her 1924 Madison County Birth Record. See The Des Moines Register, January 2, 2000 for details of the deaths of Mrs. Brewer and her husband.