Mary Brooks Brewer

Mary Brooks Brewer likely at home in Lakeland

In the 1940s and 1950s much of the organized entertainment in Lakeland was provided by social clubs. The Counts’ escorts are, left to right (first row), Evelyn Giles Tyner, Mary Weems Braxton, Mary Walls Weems, Bernice Lancaster Walls, Julia Mack Carroll, Mary Douglas Tolson, and Dorothy Mack Allen; (second row) Pearl Brooks Briscoe, Gertrude Walls Corprew, Florence Wethers, Mary Brooks Brewer, and Elizabeth Mack.

Rev. Milton Covington of the First Baptist Church is pictured here with parishioners on Women’s Day in the 1960s. Seated from left to right are (first row) Elsie Moody, Mary Brooks Brewer, Rev. Covington, Mary Arthur Brooks, unidentified, and Maria Dory; (second row) Alberta Tolson, Viola Gross, Harriet Lee Morgan, Charles Adams, Mr. Peale, Phoebe Fair, John Fair, and Rosie Cager.