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- The Washington Post
May 28, 2006
Naval Research Laboratory Employee - Ivan Wayne Brewer, 91, a former Naval Research Laboratory Employee, died April 2, 2006 of congestive heart failure. Mr. Brewer was born in Coffeyville, KS on December 8, 1914 and grew up on a dairy farm near Caney, KS. He started high school at age 12 and at age 16 enrolled at Coffeyville Community College. He graduated in 1933 with a three year Kansas teaching certificate. He attended the University of Kansas for one year.
In 1937, he married Clarice McNichol. Four years later, with two young sons, and a daughter on the way, they moved to the Washington, DC area. Mr. Brewer worked for the US government's torpedo plant in Alexandria during World War II. Mr. Brewer then worked at the Naval Research Laboratory from 1948 to 1972. After retiring, he and Clarice spent the next 25 years vacationing on cruise ships, camping near trout streams, traveling to all 50 states. They spent their 50th wedding anniversary in Alaska, where they traveled north of the Arctic Circle. Clarice died Januay 5, 2003.
Mr. Brewer is survived by four children, Gary Brewer of Waterford, VA, Thomas Brewer of Lorton, VA, Sharon Brewer Jones of Burke, VA and Rosemary Brewer Phillips of Phoenixville, PA; three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and one brother, E.N. Brewer of Dumas, TX.
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