Ambrose Michael Brayer, 87 Needham, MA………..Ambrose Michael Brayer died Wednesday, October 29, in Needham, Massachusetts. Funeral services will be held at Christ the Good Shepherd Parish at St. John the Baptist Church in Campbell, Ohio, on Thursday, November 6, at 11:00 a.m. Ambrose was born December 22, 1926, in Campbell, son of Michael and Anna (Hudak) Brayer. He lived in Campbell for eighty-two years, until moving to live with his daughter in Massachusetts. He graduated from Campbell Memorial High School in 1945. As a sergeant in the U. S. Army, Ambrose served in the South Pacific on Morotai Island and elsewhere in Indonesia, as well as on the Philippine Islands, where he was stationed in Manila and Leyte. Upon his return from the service, he worked at the Youngstown Steel Door Company, Swedlow Plastics Company, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, and Strouss Department Store, where he was an assistant department manager. Ambrose attended Youngstown State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education in 1953. He received his Masters Degree in Education from Westminster College in 1967. Ambrose began his teaching career in the North Lima School district and taught there for two years. He found his professional home, however, at Lowellville High School, where he taught Art and English for thirty-five years. He served as the yearbook advisor for twenty-nine years. During the summer months, Ambrose was the Lowellville Playground Art Director for twenty-nine years. His impact as a teacher can be measured partly by the fact that he couldn't go anywhere in Youngstown without running into former students, who greeted him with affection and respect. A kind, patient, gentle man, Ambrose loved working his crossword puzzles, especially on the dock at the Turner Camps in upstate New York's Adirondack Mountains, where he took his family every year for more than thirty years. He loved to read, listen to music, and putter around his house and garden. He always had a project going. He painted his whole life. Scenes from the Youngstown Sheet and Tube adorned the basement walls in his home on Regent Street. One wall was painted vividly with imaginatively depicted characters from nursery rhymes, which designated that part of the basement the "kids section" and delighted two generations of his descendants. He has left behind artwork of his favorite places to adorn the walls of his children and grandchildren's homes. Ambrose was a member of the Mahoning County Education Association, retired; the Ohio Education Association, retired; the National Education Association, retired; the Campbell chapter of the American Legion, Post 0560; and past member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 4723 in Campbell. He leaves behind his children, Mary Ann Brayer (Augustus) Adams of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and Michael (Gretchen) Brayer of Dearborn Heights, Michigan; grandchildren, Taylor and Austin Adams and Jarrett, Peyton, and Madeline Brayer; sister, Anarose Topolosky, and many nieces and nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, Sophie Ann Brayer, whom he married in 1953, and his sisters, Betty Gill and Margaret Eperjesi. Ambrose's love and support of children was clear from his long career in teaching and his work at the Lowellville playground. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The Brayer family has entrusted the arrangements of their loved one to the care of the Wasko Funeral Home in Campbell and will receive family and friends from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Thursday morning at the church.