Kathleen Fish Brewer, 58, of Jefferson, died at her home May 9. She was born in Gardiner on July 10, 1953, a daughter of Harry and Thelma Coulomb Fish.
Kathy graduated in 1971 from Gardiner Area High School. She attended the Conservatory School of Music for one year before the school closed.
She was encouraged and did transfer to the University of Maine Fort Kent, graduating with a degree in music and elementary education in 1976. She became employed in the Windsor Elementary School before being offered a job to teach in the Gardiner area school district at the O.C. Woodman School until it closed.
She then traveled between schools teaching music before taking a full-time position at Pittston Elementary School to teach fifth grade, where she taught until retiring at the end of the school year in 2010.
As a young woman, she joined the Grange organization on a bet and was quite active her whole life.
She served on the State Youth Committee for years, and held several offices, including Master of Pittston Grange, Master of East Kennebec Pomona, Master of Meenahga Grange, and Ceres, Pomona and most recently being elected and installed as Flora of the Maine State Grange, which she served until her death.
Kathy also had a beautiful singing voice, using her gift by singing in a group called Adelphoi.
She also sang at several weddings, sang with other talented singers in the Grange and was soloist on her husband’s Grange installing team, just to name a few. Kathy was an avid Boston Red Sox, Bruins and New England Patriot fan.
She was predeceased by her parents, Harry and Thelma Fish, of Gardiner.
She is survived by husband, Patrick Brewer of Jefferson; brother, Miles Fish of Somerville, Mass.; sisters, Shirley DeSalvo and husband Wayne of Sebring, Fla., and Virginia Pratt and husband Charles of N. Fort Myers, Fla.; and six nephews and three nieces.
Visiting hours 4-7 p.m., Sun., May 13 at Staples Funeral Home, 53 Brunswick Ave., Gardiner. Celebration of her life 2 p.m., Mon., May 14 at Highland Avenue United Methodist Church, Gardiner, followed by burial in Sheppard’s Cemetery, Jefferson and a reception at Willow Grange, 71 Washington Rd. (Rt. 126), Jefferson.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Maine State Grange Educational Aid Fund, c/o Ronald Dolloff, 100 Pine St., Waldoboro, ME 04572.
