Lt. Steven Graham Brewster
January 4, 1971 - March 6, 2022
Lt. Steven Graham Brewster of the US Navy (Retired), Age 51, has been a resident of Bartlesville Oklahoma since 2012. Mr. Brewster passed away on 3/6/2022 @ 0525 am in Ochelata, Oklahoma. He was born to Gary Graham Brewster & Sharon Kay Brewster-Kemp on January 4th, 1971, in Charles City Iowa.
Steven was a High School Graduate of the class of 1989 from Belleville Kansas, where he attended school from 6th Grade - his Senior Year. Steven was an active member of many after school clubs and activities and a leader in the High School Marching Band where he played trombone. After he graduated from High School, he went on to begin his college career at Bartlesville Wesleyan College, (Now Oklahoma Wesleyan University) in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He became a member of the college's traveling music group, The Freedom Singers, and traveled the country during the summer of 1990. He went on to obtain his Paramedic License the following year and began working for EMSA, in Tulsa, Oklahoma and he continued that for the next 4 years until he enlisted in the Navy, November of 1994.
Steven served with the US Navy from 1994 until February of 2012. During his time in the Navy, he served as a Corpsman out of Virginia Beach working as a Flight/Search & Rescue Team Member. He went from Virginia Beach to complete his master's degree in Health Care Administration at Baylor University. He then went to Corpus Christi where he served for approximately 4 years, becoming Commissioned as an Ensign before being deployed to Iraq during the start of the 2nd Iraqi War. He returned from Iraq 9 months later and was stationed again temporarily in Corpus Christi before his next duty assignment in Las Angeles, California. He spent the next 4 years in LA working to help train other medical personnel in trauma training from all branches of the military, so that they would be better equipped to handle the acute trauma's still happening in Iraq to our soldiers that continued to fight in Iraq & Afghanistan. He finished out his Naval Career in San Antonio, Texas, as a Lt., where he assisted in the development and building of a new, state of the art, medical training center where all branches of the military could now come and learn the skills, they would need to be successful in their medical military careers.
Steven returned to the Bartlesville area in the fall of 2012, where he has resided since that time. His love for music and his faith in His Lord and Savior never wavered.
He was proceeded in death by both his father, Gary Graham Brewster, and his mother, Sharon Kay Brewster. He is survived by his younger brother, Paul Brewster & his sister and her husband, David & Kimberly Kerr, and their 4 children, David Kerr & wife Georgia Kerr, Christopher Kerr & wife Angela Kerr, Kimberly Dawn Harrington & husband Jay Harrington and Hannah Nicole Kerr and her significant other Nathan Sheeren.
Memorial Services will be held at 2pm on Friday, March 11th, at the First Nazarene Church in Bartlesville Oklahoma. He will be placed to rest next to his parents at White Rose Cemetery in Bartlesville Oklahoma.
Memorial Contributions Can Be Made to any American Veteran's Organization or Group for the treatment of PTSD.
