Earl Olen Brewer died in 1944 when his plane was shot down during WWII.
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Earl was killed in WWII and a body was never recovered. June 15, 1944 is when his family got word that he had been killed in the Aleutian Islands. He was a Navy navigator.
He has a twin sister who is living in Sikeston, MO as of 2001.