SONOMA SOLDIER KILLED
Word was received here today of a young Sonoma man listed as killed in action in Vietnam by the Defense Department.
The combat casualty was identified as Pfc. John N. Brewer, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack N. Brewer, Sonoma. He was killed in combat on Jan. 11.
Young Brewer, a member of the 1965 class of Sonoma Valley High School, was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division Vietnam, with home base in Chi Chu. He enlisted in the Army in July of last year and had just been reassigned to Vietnam last month.
Between the time the young soldier left high school and entered the Army he lived in Vallejo and worked for the Port Chicago Navy Ammunition Depot.
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Michael, Gregory and Jeffrey Brewer, and a sister, Allison Jane Brewer.
Brewer's body was being shipped to Sonoma this week for funeral services, to be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Bates, Evans and Fehrensen Funeral Home. Services are to be followed at 10:30 a.m. by a Requiem Mass at St. Francis Solano Catholic Church with interment in St. Francis Cemetery in Sonoma.
A recitation of the Rosary is scheduled for this evening at the funeral home at 8:30.
Published in Petaluma Argus-Courier
Petaluma, California
Thursday January 18, 1968
Word was received here today of a young Sonoma man listed as killed in action in Vietnam by the Defense Department.
The combat casualty was identified as Pfc. John N. Brewer, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack N. Brewer, Sonoma. He was killed in combat on Jan. 11.
Young Brewer, a member of the 1965 class of Sonoma Valley High School, was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division Vietnam, with home base in Chi Chu. He enlisted in the Army in July of last year and had just been reassigned to Vietnam last month.
Between the time the young soldier left high school and entered the Army he lived in Vallejo and worked for the Port Chicago Navy Ammunition Depot.
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Michael, Gregory and Jeffrey Brewer, and a sister, Allison Jane Brewer.
Brewer's body was being shipped to Sonoma this week for funeral services, to be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Bates, Evans and Fehrensen Funeral Home. Services are to be followed at 10:30 a.m. by a Requiem Mass at St. Francis Solano Catholic Church with interment in St. Francis Cemetery in Sonoma.
A recitation of the Rosary is scheduled for this evening at the funeral home at 8:30.
Published in Petaluma Argus-Courier
Petaluma, California
Thursday January 18, 1968
SONOMA SOLDIER KILLED
Word was received here today of a young Sonoma man listed as killed in action in Vietnam by the Defense Department.
The combat casualty was identified as Pfc. John N. Brewer, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack N. Brewer, Sonoma. He was killed in combat on Jan. 11.
Young Brewer, a member of the 1965 class of Sonoma Valley High School, was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division Vietnam, with home base in Chi Chu. He enlisted in the Army in July of last year and had just been reassigned to Vietnam last month.
Between the time the young soldier left high school and entered the Army he lived in Vallejo and worked for the Port Chicago Navy Ammunition Depot.
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Michael, Gregory and Jeffrey Brewer, and a sister, Allison Jane Brewer.
Brewer's body was being shipped to Sonoma this week for funeral services, to be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Bates, Evans and Fehrensen Funeral Home. Services are to be followed at 10:30 a.m. by a Requiem Mass at St. Francis Solano Catholic Church with interment in St. Francis Cemetery in Sonoma.
A recitation of the Rosary is scheduled for this evening at the funeral home at 8:30.
Published in Petaluma Argus-Courier
Petaluma, California
Thursday January 18, 1968
Word was received here today of a young Sonoma man listed as killed in action in Vietnam by the Defense Department.
The combat casualty was identified as Pfc. John N. Brewer, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack N. Brewer, Sonoma. He was killed in combat on Jan. 11.
Young Brewer, a member of the 1965 class of Sonoma Valley High School, was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division Vietnam, with home base in Chi Chu. He enlisted in the Army in July of last year and had just been reassigned to Vietnam last month.
Between the time the young soldier left high school and entered the Army he lived in Vallejo and worked for the Port Chicago Navy Ammunition Depot.
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Michael, Gregory and Jeffrey Brewer, and a sister, Allison Jane Brewer.
Brewer's body was being shipped to Sonoma this week for funeral services, to be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Bates, Evans and Fehrensen Funeral Home. Services are to be followed at 10:30 a.m. by a Requiem Mass at St. Francis Solano Catholic Church with interment in St. Francis Cemetery in Sonoma.
A recitation of the Rosary is scheduled for this evening at the funeral home at 8:30.
Published in Petaluma Argus-Courier
Petaluma, California
Thursday January 18, 1968
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