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Origin of Brewer
Family Reunions!
The
late Thomas "Snooks" Nivens
organized the
first two Brewer Family Reunions with the help of his late wife Surluta,
the late Thelma Murphy, the late
Corrine Francis
Fortune, Patricia Atkinson Williams and her brother William. Dr. Arthelia
Brewer-Wright, and Dora "Sis" Brewer carried on the
tradition. Subsequently, family members including the late Joyce Whitley,
Dr. Coyness Ennix and the late Henry Blakeney who spearheaded
the last reunion have carried on this fine
tradition.
The first reunion was held in 1971 at Cantiaque Park in
Hicksville, New York and well attended. It seemed the Brewers had been
longing for such an occasion. A newspaper story about it appeared in
Newsday, a major Long Island newspaper (see
article).
The second family reunion (see
article) was held in 1977 at the Holiday Inn in
Westbury, Long Island. These two reunions led to subsequent reunions throughout the
years in Charlotte, Pageland and Washington, D.C., and the creation of the
Brewer Family Reunion books and ultimately this site.
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