Dr. Willis Monroe Brewer

Dr. Willis Monroe Brewer was not only an optician but a watchmaker, a master craftsman who built watches, including all their parts, by hand. He was the generation of the last of the watchmakers that built clocks and watches. Modern watchmakers, when required to repair older watches, for which replacement parts may not be available, must have fabrication skills, and can typically manufacture replacements for many of the parts found in a watch. [1]

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• Victoria Advocate Victoria Advocate
• Victoria, Texas
• 05 Jan 1941, Sun • Page 1

Dr. W.M. Brewer well-known Victoria watchmaker and optician died suddenly of a heart attack at his home at 1005 North East Street Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

Funeral services will be held at the J.E, Ryan, and Son Chapel this morning at 9 o'clock and then the remains will be conveyed to Brownwood for burial at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. Dr. W.T. Reviere, a Presbyterian pastor, will officiate here.

Dr. Brewer was born March 11, 18882 at Conway, Arkansas. He came to Texas many years ago and for several years was a watchmaker and optician at the Steele Jewelry Company here. For the past few months, he has maintained his own offices in the Victoria Bank and Trust Company Building.

Surviving is his wife. Mrs. Ora Mae Brewer, three sons; W.M. Brewer. Jr., of Victoria, W. J. Brewer of Freeport. and E.J. Brewer of Austin, two brothers: J. E. Brewer of Ballinger, and Artie Brewer of Brownwood, and two sisters: Mrs. M.O. Curry, Mrs. Walter Daniels of Brownwood.

Biography

Dr. Willis Monroe Brewer was born on March 11, 1882, in Conway County, Arkansas, USA, Conway County, Arkansas, United States. His parents were John Willis Brewer and Martha Jane Brewer. He was an Optometrist, Merchant.

Willis married Ora Mae Brewer in 1911 in Coleman, Coleman County, TX, United States. Together they had the following children:

• Wilbor Jennings Brewer;
• Colonel James Edward Brewer;
• Willis M. Brewer.

He died on January 4, 1941, in Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, USA, Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, United States, and was buried after in Greenleaf Cemetery, Brownwood, Brown County, Texas, USA, Brownwood, Brown County, Texas, United States.

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