Jamie Brewster-Filotei, vice president of McKeesport City Council and representative of the 12th Ward, died Tuesday. She was 46.
Mayor Michael Cherepko announced her death in a statement in which he extended his deepest sympathies to the Filotei and Brewster families.
“Jamie is a lifelong McKeesporter who dedicated every aspect of her life to our community,” Mr. Cherepko said.
“We can think of she and her husband, Kenny, raising their own family in the community that molded them. We can look back on Jamie working with generations of McKeesport Area students to guarantee they had access to a first-class education. We can reflect on her long history of volunteer work or her time on City Council. No matter what area of her life we examine, we see a woman who loved the city of McKeesport and its residents. I’m proud to have served with Jamie and to call her a friend,” Mr. Cherepko said.
As a member of city council, Mrs. Brewster-Filotei worked with the Burt Foster American Legion Post 361 to help manage McKeesport’s veterans banner program, which honored local soldiers by hanging banners in the city commemorating their service.
She had worked for the McKeesport Area School District as a teacher for many years.
Mrs. Brewster-Filotei, the daughter of former mayor and current state Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, was the mother to two children, T.J. and Nina.
First Published: May 15, 2020, 6:25 p.m.