Florence “Wilda” Brewster Amityville homemaker and mother Florence Wilda Brewster died March 12, 2010 in Mineola after a brief illness. She was 92 and spent her life caring for others, said her family

She was born Dec. 21, 1917 in Amityville to Edgar Aaron Scurlock and Alberta (Fowler) Jackson- Scurlock, and graduated Amityville High School in 1937. She attended secretarial school and later worked for Fairchild-Republic until her retirement in 1975.

In 1940, she married her high school sweetheart, Willis “Bill” Hodges Brewster and moved to Brewster Lane. After her mother-in-law died, she helped raise her brothers-in-laws Paul and Harry and her husband’s cousin Annabell, in addition to their own five children. For much of her life, she also cared for her nieces Valeria and Ellen and her cousin Carol-Ann, all of whom affectionately called her “mama.”

Mrs. Brewster’s family has been an integral part of the Amityville community for generations. Her uncle, Frederick Jackson, was one of the founders of the Hunter-Squire-Jackson American Legion Post in Amityville.

In the 1980s, she moved in with her daughter in Queens and most recently to Town House Extended Care in Hempstead. According to her family, she loved the music of Nat King Cole. She leaves behind her children, Sandra Brewster- Walker, Willis Hodges Brewster Jr., Kathleen King, Wilda-Jean and her son-in-law Ronald Gardner. Her grandchildren, Jef- frey, Carlton and Cassandra Walker, Aaron King and his wife Tori, Anthony King and his wife Ventia, Andrew and David King, Brooke Williams, Rodiah and husband Lesly Dorecly and Jennifer Gardner also survive her as do her great grandchildren, Jeffrey Walker Jr., Anthony Jr., Aren, Christine, Elijah, Omari, Khalil, Poetry and Kameron King; her brother and sister in law, Paul Brewster and Helen Jeffers; her nephew and nieces, Kenneth Brewster, Valerie Miller and Ellen Campbell and her cousins, Margie Johnson and Carol Meadows. A host of other family and friends also mourn her loss. She was predeceased by her husband, Bill and her daughter Phyllis.

Mrs. Brewster reposed at Powell Funeral Home, Amityville, on March 19, 2010. Interment followed at the Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn.