Family wishes to invite Good Samaritans who tried to help James Brewer when he was on fire to his memorial service this Saturday.
The homeless man that died earlier this month when he was found burning in next to some dumpsters is finally being laid to rest. A memorial service for James “Jim” Brewer is being planned for this Saturday (April 27) at Our Lady of the Ridge Catholic Church in Chicago Ridge. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and follow us on Facebook. Brewer was declared dead at the scene after some citizens reported a man engulfed in flames during the evening of April 2. As citizens waited for first responders to arrive, they tried to put out the fire on Brewer. At the time of his death, police said that Brewer had been living in a makeshift shelter behind some businesses at 99th Street and Southwest Highway. His older sister, Debbie Palumbo, said…
For many of the southwest suburbs' homeless, South Suburban PADS is the last stop before the free fall.
If she could rename herself and erase all the mistakes that put her out on the streets, she would call herself Jasmine. A 70-ish, older white woman carrying a library book, Jasmine has been homeless since December, living in her car by day, sleeping in the South Suburban PADS shelters by night. Except for her slightly soiled clothes rotated from a suitcase to save the cost of laundering, one would hardly guess that Jasmine was homeless. She looks like the nice grandmother next door, the older woman who sits next to you at church. Jasmine doesn’t want to be interviewed on camera or have her real name used, because she doesn’t want her friends to know that she has been homeless the past three months. She enjoys the game of picking a new name…
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Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ
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Calvin Christian Reformed Church
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rayzer
7:33 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Ill be there jimmy me and lisa...R.I.P..DUDE...sux the way you had to leave us... more ›