Brewer, Warren Renail
Coast Guard Seaman apprentice

Warren Renail Brewer, age 18, from Memphis, Tennessee, Shelby county.

Parents: Stepfather Robert Barbee
Spouse: None
Children: None

Service era: Cold War
Schools: Douglass High

Date of death: Monday, January 28, 1980
Death details: Among the 23 who died when the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with a tanker near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in Florida.

Source: United State Coast Guard, Tampa Bay Times (1980), Memphis Press Scimitar (1980)