Born: June 20, 1922
Died: September 10, 2003
Married: Johanna Gallo
Children: Deborah Bowersock, Burl Laramee, Judy Woodruff
John G. Brewster was a driver for the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department for several years and later operated Brewster’s Gulf Service Station. He also worked as a teacher.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 12, 2003
John G. Brewster
SARANAC LAKE — John G. Brewster, 81, formerly of Rainbow Lake, died Wednesday. Sept. .10, 2003 at the Uihlein Mercy Center in Lake Placid.
Born on Sorrel Street in Vermontville on June 20, 1922, he was the son of Ross and Dorothy (Skiff) Brewster.
He married Johanna Gallo on Nov. 28, 1961 in Elkton, Md.
Mr. Brewster had been employed as a driver for the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department for several years and then owned and operated Brewster’s Gulf Service Station in Saranac Lake for 10 years. He later worked as a machinist in Champlain and Portsmouth. N.H. until his retirement in 1987. Mr. Brewster had also worked as a teacher in Portsmouth, N.H. He taught young people how to be machinists at a technical college. After his retirement he continued to work as a real estate agent for Century 21 in New Hampshire.
Mr. Brewster served one term as mayor of the Village of Saranac Lake in the early 1970s and was a past chief of the Volunteer Fire Department. Mr Brewster was also involved with and' helped establish the Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Department.
He is survived by his wife Johanna Brewster of Lake Placid; one daughter, Deborah Bowersock of Saranac Lake; four step-children, William Bailey, Terry Bailey, Barbara Faulkner and Cindy Lanthier, all of Saranac Lake; one brother, Elmer Brewster of Bloomingdale; one step-brother, William Lewis of Winston, N.C. 19 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and one niece.
He was predeceased by two daughters. Burl Laramee and Judy Woodruff; one brother, Charles Brewster; and two granddaughters, Katherine Laramee and Kristine Phelan.
Calling houra will. be held. from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake. A firemen's prayer service will take place at 8 p.m, today at the funeral home. A funeral srvice will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 13 at the funeral home with the Rev. Mark Demers officiating. Burial will follow at North Elba Cemetery in Lake Placid.
Friends wishing to remember John Brewster may make memorial contributions to the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department or the Uihlein Mercy Center in care of the funeral home.
