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Walter Brewer Jr. Obituary

Walter Emerson Brewer Jr., 55, of Elizabethtown, passed away Monday, May 21, 2018, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.

He was a driver for Active USA, a former Rineyville fire department member, a former game warden, a member of the North American Fishing Club, a member of the American Legion and was a U.S. Army veteran, where he served as part of the military police. Walter also was a member of New Hope Community Church and was a loving husband and a devoted father.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Valerie Brewer.

Survivors include his wife, Rhonda Brewer; five sons, Walter Emerson Brewer III, Joshua Thomas Brewer, Todd Michael Brewer, Justin Tyler Brewer and Matthew Emanuel Brewer; a daughter, Delaney Marie Brewer; three brothers, Robert Eugene Brewer, Randy Erik Brewer and Jerry Brewer McCarver; two sisters, Michelle Marie Brewer-Blair and Melissa Lynn Brewer-Bowling (Bill); a grandson, Dakoda Mark Brewer; eight nieces; and eight nephews.

The funeral is at 11 a.m. Friday, May 25, at New Hope Community Church in Elizabethtown with Pastor Herb Williams officiating. Burial follows in Elizabethtown Memorial Gardens.

Visitation is from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 24, and continues at 9 a.m. Friday at the church.

To express a condolence or light a memory candle, go to www.dixonatwood.com.

Dixon-Atwood & Trowbridge Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The News-Enterprise from May 22 to May 25, 2018.

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Cita Riddle

May 27, 2018

I really enjoyed Walt's intelligence and knowledge when I picked him up in the Chilli shuttle. Saddened he passed away and millions of hugs going out to his loved ones

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May 24, 2018

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May 23, 2018

Our condolences to the family. May God fulfill his promise of binding up the brokenhearted. Isa 61:1

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