Necrology

Lloyd Hay Bremer '58

Mar. 17, 1936-Jul. 26, 2007

Lloyd Hay Bremer ’58, a physician and surgeon, was born on March 17, 1936, in Orange, NJ. The only son of Lloyd Paul Bremer ’29, a building contactor and one-time mayor of Morris Township, NJ, and the former Helen H. Taylor, he was a nephew of Kenneth M. ’33 and Lewis Paul Bremer, Jr. ’35. Lloyd Bremer, also known as “Pat,” grew up in the Garden State and entered Hamilton from Morristown High School in 1954. He joined Chi Psi, later becoming its house steward, served on the Student Curriculum Committee, and was a founder and president of the campus Young Republican Club. He majored in biochemistry in preparation for medical school and was graduated in 1958.

Pat Bremer went on to Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, where he earned his M.D. degree in 1962. An internship and residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit was followed by a surgical residency in Worcester, MA. In 1968, he became an emergency physician at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, which has one of the busiest emergency departments in Massachusetts, and he held that position for many years. He was also a partner in the Mid Cape Medical Center and first medical director of the Cape and Islands Emergency Medical Services System, both in Hyannis. Because of his pioneering contributions, the System established a leadership award in his name and honor.

In 1995, Lloyd H. Bremer retired with his wife Nina to Arizona and took up residence in Sedona. He was residing in the village of Oak Creek, AZ, when he died on July 26, 2007. In addition to his wife, whom he had married in 1971, he is survived by their sons, Christopher H ’95 and Robert Bremer. Also surviving are a son and daughter, Paul T. and Ann Elizabeth Bremer, from his first marriage, in 1959, to Barbara Thompson, and two grandchildren and three sisters.

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