SHREVEPORT – A Memorial Service for Anneliese Brewster will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Shreveport, Louisiana. A reception will follow the service in the church parlor.
Mrs. Brewster passed away in her home on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. She was born on July 17, 1928, to Mr. Johann Bernhard Thuringer and Maria Steinbauer Thuringer in Nuremberg, Germany. She had a brother, Rudolph Thuringer and stepbrother, Wilhelm Rosfler, and a stepmother, Marie Thuringer. Mrs. Brewster has cherished memories of her parents and grandparents. Their lives were interrupted with the commencement of WWII and she lived and witnessed as a child the ravages and losses of war. Shortly after the war she married an American serviceman, Cecil Kurthwood Brewster, and they moved to Alexandria, Louisiana, for several years where she made many lifelong friends. She and her family moved to Shreveport in 1953. She worked at Western Electric for 25 years before retiring.
Anneliese had a passion for flowers and loved to spend time in her garden and feeding hummingbirds and butterflies, all of which she dedicated to the glory of God. She was generous in spirit and action to all with whom she came in contact. She loved people and attracted many friends from all walks of life.
Anneliese is preceded in death by her parents, her brother, a military medic who was killed on the Russian front, her stepbrother, who was lost on the Russian front, her stepmother, husband, and a son, Michael Wayne Brewster. She is survived by her children, Karen Schamerhorn and husband, Billy, Deborah Hall and husband, Bill, of Shreveport, and Rudy Brewster and wife, Sharon, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; six grandchildren, Christopher Brewster and wife, Davina, of Lafayette, Louisiana, William G. Hall and wife Kristen of Houston, Alexander Hall and Christian Hall of Shreveport, and Misti Brewster Horrell and husband, Robert, and Michelle Brewster of Benton, Louisiana, and one great granddaughter, Lyla Paige Hall of Shreveport.
The family wishes to thank her longtime friend, Joan Carthrum, caregivers from Lifepath Hospice, her sitters, and many friends who remembered her with kindness. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to The Wounded Warrior Project at P. O . Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas, 66675-8517, and St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral at 908 Rutherford Street, Shreveport, Louisiana 71104.
