Auburn, ME- Carrie Emma Brewer Jenkins passed away at 101 years of age on September 1st 2020. She was born March 3 1919 in Webster, Maine the youngest daughter of Charles Herbert and Hazel Jackson Brewer. Carrie graduated from Sabattus High School in 1935 and married Charles Drinkwater Jenkins on August 4th of the same year. The couple owned and operated the Teague & Jenkins Funeral Home for many years in Lewiston where they both were very active and engaged members of the community. In 1965, the couple retired and moved to Cumberland Foreside.
Mrs. Jenkins was a life member of the CMMC Hospital Women’s Association, the Pine Cone Chapter of Eastern Star, and the Liberty Rebekar Lodge. She was a Rotary Ann of the Rotary Club of Lewiston, a member of the League of Women Voters of Maine, a member of the Woman’s Literary Union of Auburn and a member of the Lewiston United Baptist Church. Mrs. Jenkins was predeceased by her husband of 70 years in 2005 and was predeceased by her siblings James Herbert Brewer, MyrleEvelyn Ricker, Louise Frances Hill, and Maude Anna Lofgren. In addition, her nieces Delores Ann Noyes and Madelyn Atwood and nephews, Charles Herbert Brewer, Carl Edward Lofgren, and Frank Ricker predeceased her. Mrs. Jenkins was a resident at the Schooner Estates in Auburn, Maine since 2007. She is survived by her nieces Beverly Hill Blais of Norwich, Ct,, Dr. Virginia Hill Rice of Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, and her nephew, Walter S. Hill Jr. of Anderson, South Carolina in addition to many grand and great grand nieces and nephews.
A funeral service will be held livestream only at 11 am on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. To view the service, please visit www.lindquistfuneralhome.com to link to the funeral home Facebook page. Burial will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Sabattus.
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