Funeral services for 37-year Carson City resident Mary Brewer Mechum, 85, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Walton's Chapel of the Valley. Visitation will be there Tuesday from 6-8 p.m.
Mrs. Mechum died March 8, 2003 at Carson-Tahoe Hospital. She was born June 12, 1917 in Winston-Salem, N.C., to Joseph Roland Brewer and Mary Myers.
She moved from San Francisco to Carson City, where she worked as a nurse on the surgical floor of Carson-Tahoe Hospital, starting in 1968. She retired in 1983.
Mrs. Mechum, a Methodist, was very active in the OARC in Carson City. She enjoyed gardening and baking.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer F. Mechum in 1992; son Gene Mechum in 1996; brothers Ernest, Clifton, Curtis and Culvert Brewer; and sisters Bracie Ridings, Thelma Dull, Pauline Hart and Lorene Clinar.
She is survived by her sons Don Mechum of Carson City and Murray Mechum of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; daughters Betty Green of Folsom, Calif., and Dena Mechum of Carson City; brother Clay Brewer of Winston-Salem; and grandchildren Julie Martin, Sean Segal, Cadie Lockhart, Kathleen Green, and Andrew, Madeline and Jenna Mechum.
Burial will be at Carson Gardens Cemetery in Carson City.
Walton's Chapel of the Valley is in charge of arrangements.
