JOSEPH LYNN BREWER

GOLDEN CITY- Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday sat Daniel Funeral Home for Joseph Lynn Brewer, 68, Golden City, who died Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin. Burial will followe in Pippenger Cemetery in Lockwood.

A visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, at the funeral home.

Contributions are suggested and made payable to either Newport Baptist Church or St. Jude Children's Hospital, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include his daughter, Lena Brewer, along with a host of nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, John and Ralph; one sister-in-law, Deb; one aunt, Beverly and his best friend, Tom Elliott.

Mr. Brewer was born June 4, 1955, in Hawarden, Iowa, to Lyle John Brewer and Phyllis Jean (Dewey) Brewer. He was a 1973 graduate of Golden City High School. He married Sherry Pennell on June 29, 1984, at Pleasant View Baptist Church and to this union one child was born, Lena Ann Brewer on October 26, 1998, at Barton County Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Brewer had a paper route when he was young and often helped his dad in the general store that his dad owned in Hawarden, Iowa. At the age of eight the family moved to Golden City. To help with the bills for his dad, Mr. Brewer started working as a janitor at age 14, with the "Economic Youth Security Program" at Golden City R-III School. After graduating high school he was hired on full time as a janitor at the school in 1974, where he worked until he retired in 2011 after 35 years.

During this time he worked at Gilkey's Garage in Lamar. He also went through the Mills Anderson Police Academy (at MSSU) in Joplin. He then became a reserve police officer for the Golden City Police Department under Lonnie Pennell. He was a member of IOOF Cemetery Board, a Golden City School Board member, a member of Golden City City Council, former mayor of Golden City, Golden City Road Board member and a moderator at Newport Baptist Church. He also served on the Golden City Fire Department Board and was a member of Golden City MFA. He was an avid flea marketer and collected many things, especially tools.