BENNETTS POINT :   Major Marcus A. Brewer, USAF (Ret.) flew his last earthly mission on Tuesday morning, July 19, 2022.  Graveside services, with military honors, will be held Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 10:00 at the Williams Cemetery in Williams, SC.  In lieu of flowers, please send memorials to the Williams Cemetery Fund, c/o Mary Couch, 1669 George Warren Drive, Williams, SC  29493.

Major Brewer was born in Asheville, NC in 1937, the son of Fred and Jessie Brewer and was the nephew of Malcolm and Mayme Warren of Williams, SC.

As a navigator, Major Brewer flew the B-52, C-141, and AC-119K gunship.  Among his military honors were the Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster and the Air Medal with thirteen Oak Leaf Clusters.  The Major was credited with 135 combat mission in Vietnam.

Major Brewer was a lifetime member of The Military Officers Association of America and the AC-119 Gunship Association.  He was also a member of The Charleston Elks Lodge.  He is survived by his extended family.

The Major's favorite poem was High Flight:

"Oh! I have slipped the surley bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence.  Hov'ring there,

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I've topped the wind - swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or even eagle flew-

And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."