Lucille Spain Brewer, 93, the owner of The Blue Goose, a beloved former Sandfield community café, died Wednesday at Trinity Healthcare Center.

“I would like to say that my mother loved the community of Columbus,” Currie Brewer-Fisher, one of Brewer”s three children, said Thursday. “She especially loved her Sandfield community and her Blue Goose customers and her family at Zion”s Gate Missionary Baptist Church.

“Her journey”s end is going to be a celebration,” she added.

“She was a very liturgic person, who was a good manager of her time and talent,” said Zion”s Gate Missionary Baptist Church, Inc. Senior Pastor Dr. James A. Boyd. “(She was) a dedicated member of the church, very loyal. She was a very obedient member, one the church will miss and one the church was very proud of.”

In 1942, Brewer was a single, 25-year-old when she opened The Blue Goose, next to a hotel she owned and near her childhood home.

In the 1960s, Civil Rights groups, like the Mule Train and Freedom Riders, visited the café for its soul-food offerings and Medgar Evers was one of many Civil Rights activists to patronize Brewer”s establishment.

Brewer operated The Blue Goose until the 1970s, when she leased it to new management.

In 2008, the building, located at 2400 College St., was destroyed in a controlled-burn training exercise by the Columbus Fire Department.