Notes for George Washington DREWRY
Dresden Enterprise:April 7, 1933
Meridian. George Drewry, 26 year old son of Harve and Nannie Drewry died at an early hour Sunday, March 26, after many months of suffering. George had to give up a good position and came back to his good home, where he was so tenderly cared for by loved ones and good doctors. He was buried at Meridian where Allen Sharp made a nice talk.

OBITUARY
George Washington Drewry was born May 8, 1906; died Sunday March 26,1933; age 26 years, 10 months, eight days. Though he was not connected with the church as a member, he attended the Cumberland Presbyterian church in early life at Meridian and the family feels sure  that in his last days of suffering that God was ever present with him and he felt safe in His keeping. On Sunday, March 26, just as the world was stirring to life for a new day, God saw fit to take one from among us and as a flower that springs up and givesits beauty to the world, then is suddenly cut down. Thus God reached  out his hand and took form us one, though he had grown tired with bodily suffering, had tunred his face to a land that is fairer than this, where sickness and pain are no more and as the poet, Bryant, has said, ìHe wrapped the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.î He met the duties that came his way with a cheerful hand and served as a comrade to his fellow-man.He leaves to mourn his going his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Drewry, three sisters, Mrs. May Swindell, Mrs. Grace Rogers, Mrs. Elsie Perry, and four brothers, Wayne A. Drewry, of Maxwell Field, Montgomery , Ala; Willard John Drewry, Memphis; Flag Allen Drewry, of San Francisco, Calif.; and Herman I. Drewry, also of Memphis, with a host of relatives and friends.Services were held from Meridian Monday at 2:30 p. m. with a fitting tribute paid to the life of the deceased in a beautiful talk by Mr. Allen Sharp. Internment at Meridian cemetery, Brasfield, Maness and Williams in charge.