Remembering my teacher Mrs. Bremer

This is what I looked like in Mrs. Bremer's School

Class at Hayden Heights, Vienna, Missouri, USA

Ralph and Faith Burgess, thirty years later

In 1994 , Vienna, Missouri

Ralph and Faith Burgess were both

in Mrs. Faye Bremer's class in Hayden Missouri

During 1960, 1961 my sister Faith and I were both in Mrs. Bremer's school class at Hayden Heights School out on Highway 28, just outside of Vienna, Missouri. We must have been in the first or second grade then according to the trial transcripts. In those days a teacher taught various age groups in the Elementary Schools, right up to the eighth grade.

I remember Mrs. Bremer very clearly. She was a medium sized woman, firmly built, with glasses and tucked her long hair into a bun at the back. Mrs. Bremer was serious about her teaching profession, but also compassionate, and courageous; proven by her testimony at our trial.

I wished that I could have seen her when I was back in the area in 1988, 1993 and 1994 visiting from London.



Finding out about her passing away aturally saddened me, but Mrs. Bremer most certainly passed away peacefully, because I know she had a clear conscience, especially when it came to protecting the children that she taught locally in Hayden, Missouri or anywhere else.



Mrs. Bremer goes right towards the top of my good memory list, when I reflect back on those terrible two and a half years I spent at Helen Burgess's house.





Rest in peace, Faye Bremer.

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Faye Lillian Humphrey Bremer



Faye Lillian (Humphrey) Bremer, 71, Austin, Texas, formerly of Vienna and Jefferson City, died March 18, 1991 at her home.



She was born October 5, 1919, in Maries County, a daughter of Walter W. and Stella Crismon Humphrey. She was married to Harold Bremer, who preceded her in death in January 1970.



She taught school in Maries County several years, then moved to Jefferson City where she worked in the State Auditor's Office. After the death of her husband, she moved to Texas and was employed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Ausin for approximately 15 years. She was a member of Jefferson Chapter #496, Order of the Eastern Star for 49 years.



Survivors include one brother, Guy Humphrey of Carson City, Nevada; and three sisters, Dale Graham of Kirkwood, Irene Richardson of Mission, Texas and Emogene Herrmann of Robertsville.



Services were held the following Monday at the Stevinson-Mossman Funeral Home in Iberia. The Rev. Randall Hoffman officiated. Burial was in the Union Cemetery near Iberia. An O.E.S. service was held Thursday evening at the funeral home.