[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 165 (Friday, October 18, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1305-E1306]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF MARY BEATRICE BREWER

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                           HON. MARK E. GREEN

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 18, 2019

  Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the life 
and legacy of Mary Beatrice (Bea) Brewer, a resident of Signature 
Health Care in Erin, Tennessee.

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  Mary Beatrice Hutchison was born on May 29, 1922 in Benton County, 
Tennessee. She grew up in Benton County, where she stood out as a high 
school basketball player. After she graduated, she moved to Detroit to 
work in a factory supplying the war effort in World War II.
  In 1945, Bea married Tom Brewer, a WWII Army Air Corps veteran who 
survived many months in a German prisoner of war camp. Together, they 
raised two daughters--Lisa and Kim--and two grandchildren--Jacob and 
Lauren.
  Bea and Tom lived in Houston County, where Tom worked as a teacher 
and Bea spent twenty years at the Stewart-Houston Times, the local 
newspaper where she wrote a column and served as editor. After retiring 
from the paper, she worked at the Houston County Soil Conservation for 
over twenty years. For the past year, she has been a resident at 
Signature Health Care.
  I ask my colleagues in the United States House of Representatives to 
join me in congratulating Mary Beatrice Brewer on her induction into 
the Signature Health Care Hall of Fame.

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