Karl A. Bremner 98, of Westborough and formerly of Natick, the retired President of the former Natick Five Cents Savings Bank (now Middlesex Savings Bank), died Wednesday December 15 2010 at the UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester.
He was the husband of Dorothy (Clark) Bremner with whom he shared 29 years of marriage.
A Westborough resident for the past seven years and of Natick for 73 years, he was born in Boston the son of the late William and Margaret (Walters) Bremner.
After his family moved to Natick from Upton in 1932, Mr. Bremner began his 41 year career in banking, starting in a teller position in 1935 at the Natick Five Cents Savings Bank on Main Street, and worked his way through management positions, was elected President in 1968 and retired in 1976.
He was a longtime member and Treasurer of the Fisk Memorial Methodist Church in Natick and was a member of the Natick Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Bremner was active in his retirement years, enjoying extensive travel, and fishing, loved a good game of cribbage, maintained a daily journal, was an avid reader, learned to speak phrases in Twi, a Ghana language dialect, crafts, and painting, stamp collecting, crosswords and puzzles.
He was a graduate of Upton High school class of 1930, Burdett College of Business Administration 1934 where he was a member of Sigma Chi Omega, and the Graduate School of Savings Banking at Brown University 1965.
In addition to his wife he is survived by two children Margaret Intinarelli and her husband Jeff of Milford, Patricia Bremner of Natick, stepchildren Robert Hansen of WI, Carol Doyle and her husband Jack of Lynn, Jeanne Hinrichs and her husband Karl of NY, two sisters Clare Wright of Fl, Barbara Burke of Natick, 15 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
He was also the husband of the late Irene (Dunbar) Schneider, and Dorothy (Sargent) Bremner and father of the late Karl Robert Bremner, brother of the late Margaret Connolly, William Bremner, Harold Bremner, and Lt. Paul Bremner killed in action during WWII.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend his funeral service on Wednesday December 29 at 7:00 P.M. in the Chapel of the John Everett and Sons Funeral Home, 4 Park Street at Natick Common. Pastor Seth Asare of Fisk Methodist Church will officiate.
Visiting hours are on Wednesday December 29 beginning at 3:00 P.M. prior to the service.
Expressions of sympathy may be made in his memory to the Fisk Memorial United Methodist Church, 106 Walnut Street, Natick, MA 01760.