Sister Helen (Helen Frances) Brewer died at Seton Residence on September 24, 2026. Sister was born on November 24, 1934 in Perryville, Missouri, and was one of seven children of Edward Louis and Stella Ann (Bass) Brewer. She graduated from St. Vincent High School in 1952 and entered the Daughters of Charity in St. Louis, Missouri. Sister received a BA in English from Marillac College in St. Louis, an M.Ed in Secondary Administration from the University of Missouri and an M.Ed in Religious Education from Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Sister Helen served as an elementary teacher at St. Vincent de Paul School in Mobile, Alabama, Cosgriff Memorial School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and St. Catherine Labouré School in St. Louis and Holy Trinity School in Dallas, Texas. She was also a teacher and Vice Principal at Cathedral High School in San Francisco, California, and Principal of Holy Trinity School in Dallas and Labouré High School in St. Louis. Sister was Director of Religious Education at Sacred Heart Parish (Willow Springs, Missouri), St. Mary’s Parish (West Plains, Missouri), St. Charles Borromeo Parish (St. Charles, Missouri), and Director of Renew for the Diocese of Springfield/Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She also served as a Councillor on the Marillac Provincial Leadership of the West Central Province of the Daughters of Charity and as a Receptionist at the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Sister Helen was Vice President of Mission at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, and at DCNHS in St. Louis, as well as Advocacy Consultant at Seton Family of Hospitals in Austin, Texas and Associate Vicar of Religious for the Diocese of Austin, Texas. She served in the Ministry of Prayer at the Sarah Community in Bridgeton,, Missouri, and Seton Residence in Evansville, Indiana, until the time of her death.
A Wake Service was held on October 2 in the Seton Residence Chapel, and the Mass of Christian Burial took place the same day in Seton Chapel. Burial followed in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Sister Helen was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters Dorothy Ann Uding and Maura Jean Adair, and her brothers Dennis, Albert, and Louis Brewer. She is survived by her sister, Victoria Elizabeth Elliott, other loving family members, her Sisters in Community, and many friends.