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Name: Francis F Lewis
Birth Year: 1919
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Missouri
State of Residence: Missouri
County or City: Cape Girardeau

Enlistment Date: 23 Dec 1940
Enlistment State: Missouri
Enlistment City: Cape Girardeau
Branch: Infantry
Branch Code: Infantry
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Component: National Guard (Officers, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source: National Guard

Education: 1 year of college
Civil Occupation: Teachers (secondary school) and principals
Marital status: Single, without dependents
Height: 69
Weight: 133

Died:
June 2, 1988 Francis F. Lewis

CAPE GIRARDEAU — Funeral service for Francis F. Lewis, 1212 Sailer Circle, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Charles Grant will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Graveside rites will be by Louis K. Juden American Legion Post.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Funeral Home from 4-8 p.m. Friday. Lewis, 69 years old, died Wednesday, June 1, 1988, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Oct. 31, 1918, at Des Arc, son of Fred and Ethel Miller Lewis. He and the former Melva Rose Schrader were married Oct. 21, 1950, in Cape.

Lewis attended SEMO University three years before being mobilized with the National Guard in 1940. He served in the U.S. Air Force in World War II, flying transport planes from India to China. He received the Air Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, and China War Memorial Medal.

He was discharged in 1946, but remained active in the Air Force Reserve until 1968.

Lewis began his career as a stockbroker in 1949. He was branch manager of Reinhold Gardner from 1958 until becoming manager of Shearson/American Express in January 1979, and was co-manager of A.G. Edwards from 1986 until retiring in March of this year.

Lewis helped organize the Greater Cape Girardeau Development Corp., and had served as vice president and director.

He had also been active in Jaycees, Boy Scouts, United Way, American Legion, Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Rotary Club. He was a former commander of Louis K. Juden American Legion Post, and a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club.

Lewis was a member of United Way Board of Directors 18 years. He served in various leadership capacities of the Boy Scouts, including district leadership training chairman and Shawnee District chairman. He served on the Board of Directors of Region 8 of Boy Scouts of America.

He was a member of Tower Club, past president of Kimbeland Country Club, past board member of Cape Country Club, member of SEMO Seniors Golf Association, and Hump Pilots Association.

Lewis received the Golden Deeds Award in 1984. He served on Southeast Hospital Board of Trustees 13 years, and was president of the board from 1969-71. He was chairman of the Long Range Planning Committee and Cancer Treatment Center Committee.

He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, served as a deacon and elder, and in other leadership positions.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Benjamin Lewis of Cape; two daughters, Mrs. Carole Iles of Columbia, Mrs. Mary Frances Young of Oakland, Calif.; three brothers, Frank, Freeman and Bill Lewis, all of Cape; two sisters, Mrs. Frieda Howard and Mrs. Leta Bahn of Cape, and a granddaughter, Hannah Lewis of Cape.


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Francis married Melva Rose Schrader on 21 Oct 1950 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Melva (daughter of Benjamin Robert Schrader and Selma Sophia Augusta Meyer) was born on 20 Jul 1923 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 30 Apr 2002 in Prague, , , Czech Republic; was buried in Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Melva Rose Lewis of Cape dies of heart attack in Czechoslovakia
Southeast Missourian
Melva Rose Lewis, a former advertising saleswoman and obituary writer for the Southeast Missourian, had written her own obituary but didn't think she'd need it for a long while.
The 78-year-old Lewis died of a massive heart attack Tuesday shortly after arriving in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on vacation with family members, including her daughter, Mary Frances Young.
"She had a conversation on the train with Mary and said she'd probably live another 20 years," Lewis' son, Benjamin said Wednesday.
Lewis had high blood pressure and took medicine to control her cholesterol level but had no history of heart problems.
Benjamin Lewis, a Cape Girardeau attorney who is a former associate circuit judge, said his mother had just arrived at the apartment of his cousin, Lynette Williamson and her husband, Bob, when the heart attack occurred. She was a 1940 graduate of CentralHigh School and 1944 graduate of Southeast. She also worked as a copywriter for Famous Barr in St. Louis and as a secretary for the United Way.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home, delayed due to Wednesday's May Day holiday in Europe.
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Obituary:
Southeast Missourian
Melva Rose Lewis, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, April 30, 2002, in Prague, Czech Republic.
She was born July 20, 1923, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Benjamin R. and Selma Meyer Schrader. She and Francis F. Lewis were married Oct. 21, 1950. He died June 1, 1988.
Lewis was a 1940 graduate of Central high School. She received a bachelor of science degree in education and a bachelor of arts degree with majors in English and history from Southeast Missouri State University in 1944.
After working in St. Louis as a copyrighter for Famous-Barr, she was an advertising account executive for the Cape Girardeau News and the Southeast Missourian. She was late secretary for United Way and had worked in the news department at the Southeast Missourian.
Lewis was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Chaper GF of P.E.O., GFWC Quest Club and Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society.
Survivors include a son, Benjamin F. Lewis of Cape Girardeau; two daughters, Carole Anne Iles of Ashland, Mo., Mary Francis Young of Davis, Calif.; a sister, Margie Caterson of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.; and six grandchildren.
Friends may call at Ford & Sons Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Paul Kabo officiating. Inurnment will be in Cape County Memorial Park.
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My Aunt Melva Rose was an avid genealogist and a wealth of information on the history of Cape Girardeau and many of the families of Cape. I am fortunate that she shared some of her knowledge and enthusiasm with me.
She was doing two of her favorite things - traveling and being with family.
Our condolences to the Lewis and Schrader families.

Died:
Melva Rose Lewis of Cape dies of heart attack in Czechoslovakia

Southeast Missourian
Thursday, May 2, 2002

Melva Rose Lewis, a former advertising saleswoman and obituary writer for the Southeast Missourian, had written her own obituary but didn't think she'd need it for a long while.

The 78-year-old Lewis died of a massive heart attack Tuesday shortly after arriving in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on vacation with family members, including her daughter, Mary Frances Young.

"She had a conversation on the train with Mary and said she'd probably live another 20 years," Lewis' son, Benjamin said Wednesday.

Lewis had high blood pressure and took medicine to control her cholesterol level but had no history of heart problems.

Benjamin Lewis, a Cape Girardeau attorney who is a former associate circuit judge, said his mother had just arrived at the apartment of his cousin, Lynette Williamson and her husband, Bob, when the heart attack occurred. She was a 1940 graduate of Central High School and 1944 graduate of Southeast. She also worked as a copywriter for Famous Barr in St. Louis and as a secretary for the United Way.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home, delayed due to Wednesday's May Day holiday in Europe.


Melva Rose Lewis, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, April 30, 2002, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Southeast Missourian
Saturday, May 4, 2002

She was born July 20, 1923, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Benjamin R. and Selma Meyer Schrader. She and Francis F. Lewis were married Oct. 21, 1950. He died June 1, 1988.

Lewis was a 1940 graduate of Central High School. She received a bachelor of science degree in education and a bachelor of arts degree with majors in English and history from Southeast Missouri State University in 1944.

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After working in St. Louis as a copywriter for Famous-Barr, she was an advertising account executive for the Cape Girardeau News and the Southeast Missourian. She was later secretary for United Way and had worked in the news department at the Southeast Missourian.

Lewis was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Chapter GF of P.E.O., GFWC Quest Club and Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society.

Survivors include a son, Benjamin F. Lewis of Cape Girardeau; two daughters, Carole Anne Iles of Ashland, Mo., Mary Francis Young of Davis, Calif.; a sister, Margie Lee Caterson of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.; and six grandchildren.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday.

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Paul Kabo officiating. Inurnment will be in Cape County Memorial Park.

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!MARRIAGE LICENSE STATE OF MISSOURI... COUNTY OF IRON ...This License authorizes any Judge of a Court of Record or any Justice of the Peace, or any licensed or ordained Preacher of the Gospel, who is a Citizen of the United States, or who is a resident ofand a Pastor of any Church in this State to solemnize Marriage between Fred Lewis of Des Arc in the County of Iron and State of Missouri who is over the age of twenty one years, and Ethel M. Miller of Des Arc in the County of Iron and State of Missouri who is over the age of eighteen years. This is to certify that I did on the 27th day of May unite in marriage Fred Lewis and Ethel M. Miller.

Witness My Hand, as Circuit Clerk and ex Officio Recorder of Deeds with the Seal of Office hereto affixed at my Office in Ironton No this 23rd day of may 1916.

J.M. Hawkins, Circuit Clerk and ex Officio Recorder of Deeds

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STATE OF MISSOURI, COUNTY OF IRON ...This is to Certify, that the undersigned, Fred Lewis and Ethel M. Miller did, at Des Arc in said County, on the 27 day of May A. D. 1916 unite in Marriage the above named persons, and I further certify that I as legally qualified under the Laws of the State of Missouri to solemnize Marriages.

Eld. H. J. Wray.
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The foregoing Certificate of Marriage was filed for Record in my office on the
26 day of June A.D. 1916
J. M. Hawkins, Circuit Clerk and ex Officio Recorder of Deeds
(Copy of certificate obtained from Carolyn Keathley McBurney in June 1991)

!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
DES ARC ITEMS

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis called while at their old home last Sunday, and said they were all well contented with the new home over at the Cape. (IRON COUNTY REGISTER newspaper... Ironton, Missouri ...January 5, 1939)

!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis and son from Cape Girardeau were here last week to visit his brother, James Lewis and family. They had been to Ironton to visit his sister, Mrs. Tyler Keathley who is ill but we are glad to report her as improved. (DES ARC HARKENINSS column ...THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper ...Ironton, Iron County, Missouri ...Thursday, May 12, 1955)

!OBITUARY
FRED LEWIS, 77, CAPE BUSINESSMAN, DIES, BORN AT ANNAPOLIS

Fred Lewis, 77 years old, president of the Wimpy’s Drive In and Market, 800 North Kingshighvay, Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday night, July 22, at 6:10 at a hospital there where he had been admitted Saturday from the family home at 819 West Cape Rock Drive. Mr. Lewis had been in failing health three months.

Funeral services were conducted last Thursday afternoon at 2 at First Presbyterian Church Cape Girardeau, by the pastor. Rev. C.E. Mount. Interment was in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Pallbearers, all nephews, were Buford Lewis, Howard Lewis, Darwin Lewis,Russell Lewis, Elvis Lewis and Orville Lewis.

Surviving relatives are his wife, Mrs. Ethel Lewis; four sons, Frank, Francis, Freeman and Billie J. Lewis, all of Cape; two daughters, Mrs. Truman Howard and Mrs. E. Lawrence Bahn of Cape Girardeau and 11 grandchildren.
Two brothers surviving are J.M. Lewis of Des Arc and W.W. Lewis of Flat River.
Born January 16, 1881, at Annapolis, he Married Miss Ethel Miller on May 27, 1916. Mr. Lewis engaged in farming until they moved to Cape Girardeau in 1938 from Des Arc. In 1943, he and two of the sons, Freeman and Billie opened the present place of business. The son, Frank, joined the firm in 1948.
Mr. Lewis was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau.
(Thursday, July 31, 1958...Copy of newspaper clipping was received in September 1992 from Mary Lu Politte. She obtained the article from Naomi Lewis Zager)

!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Mrs. James Lewis and Darwin Lewis, Mrs. Everett Seal, Mr. and Mrs. Buford Lewis attended the funeral of Fred Lewis at Cape Girardeau last week. Mr. Lewis was born and reared on a farm near Des Arc and had many friends here. His funeral was held from the Presbyterian Church at Cape Girardeau where he was an active member. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Ethel Lewis and a number of children and grandchildren. We sympathize with the bereaved ones.
(THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper ...Ironton, Iron County, Missouri... July 31, 1958)

Research notes courtesy of Linda E. Lewis, “George Lewis Descendants”, published October 1992.

Fred Lewis birthplace (1881) - GPS: 37.367836 -90.711768

Fred Lewis farm (1910-1938) - GPS: 37.301644. -90.609957

In 1941, Fred Lewis was employed by a Florist, Ledru R. Johnson, whose flower shop and greenhouse was located at 730 N. Henderson in Cape Girardeau.

On the Fred Lewis farm:

Susie is the blind mule
Kit is the mule
Charlie is the horse

Written by oldest grandchild - Richard Lewis Howard in May 2023:

My mother’s father, my grandpa, Fred Lewis was born at Annapolis, Missouri on January 16, 1881 to William Lewis and Abigail Johnson the 12th of 13 children. Grandpa Fred was a thin, wiry, not strong man. He was very friendly and well liked by all who met him. He was the exact opposite of grandma. Grandpa loved to interact with people. He was always telling jokes. I’m still amazed at how he remembered all his jokes. I don’t have the ability to remember even one joke from one day to the next.

Grandpa Fred grew up on a farm and later owned his own farm. He got married when he was 35 years old. Grandma and grandpa Lewis had four boys and two girls. They raised their children in a two level, eight room farm house, with four rooms on each level. Mother told me the story of some of the children sleeping in the attic. In the winter time she said she would wake up sometimes with a sprinkling of snow on her covers. The kids helped their parents with the farm tasks from an early age. My mother tells the story of washing a drying dishes when she was so young that she had to stand on a stool to reach the sink. They stayed on the farm as long as they could, but when the children became young adults the burden became to much for grandma and grandpa and they sold the farm and moved to town.

My best memories of my grandpa Fred happened in and around Wimpy’s. My mother worked there in 1950 and 1951 when dad was recovering from tuberculosis. At other times, she often helped out when they were real busy. So as a youngster, I often found my self at Wimpy’s. I gravitated to the food market side of the building where I could find my grandpa. No matter the situation, he was always glad to see me. I know being the first grandchild worked in my favor here. Grandpa would ask me if I wanted to help him and for some reason I was always ready for the task he gave me. Many times we just worked together on whatever he was involved with at the time and he would teach me how to do whatever it was we were doing. They did not have an electric vacuum cleaner, so we were always sweeping the wooden floors in the grocery aisles.

in the basement underneath the restaurant were stacks and stacks of wooden crates filled with different brands of soda. Grandpa had a wooden slide that we used to slide the full soda crates down the stairs into the basement then we carried them to the appropriate stack. I was strong enough to carry the crates of empty bottles, but grandpa had to carry the ones with the full bottles. In the early days Wimpy’s sold cold bottles of soda. I don’t remember the year they switched to fountain drinks. But they had fountain drinks when I started high school in 1957.

I loved to watch grandpa make the hamburgers sold in the restaurant. There was a meat locker full of sides of beef that was located in the butcher shop by the meat counter. We would go inside the locker and get a slab of beef and he would grind it up into ground beef. Then he mixed it with the special ingredients that made the Wimpy burger unique, form it into a long 12 inch or so slab, then put it into the meat slicer and slice the slab into patties with a piece of wax paper inserted between each patty. Oh the memories, this was a special time for me. The family still makes the Wimpy’s hamburgers for family get-to-gathers and special events.

Grandpa was my favorite grandparent. He always wanted to know what was going on in my life. He was the most compassionate of all my grandparents. Every time he saw me he wanted to know how I was doing in school. I don’t know how much education he had received growing up, but my education was real important to him. I would show him my report card and he would give me a quarter for every excellent grade I received. I did like a lot getting the money, but that wasn’t my source of motivation. I just liked school and learning.
As I got older and my other cousins started showing up, grandpa Fred and I spent less time together. But those early childhood years with him were very special to me. I’ll always remember him for his love and kindness to me.

Buried:
Grave 6 - Lot 170 - Section 8

Section 8, Lot 170, Grave 1

Fred married Ethel Mayme Miller on 27 May 1916 in Annapolis, Iron County, Missouri, USA. Ethel (daughter of Jay Lafayette Miller and Martha Eveline (Mattie) King) was born on 25 Jan 1890 in Annapolis, Iron County, Missouri, USA; died on 04 Dec 1970 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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!OBITUARY
MRS. ETHEL LEWIS DIED FRIDAY AT CAPE;
WAS BORN AT DES ARC

Mrs. Fred Lewis, long associated with the family business known as Wimpy's Drive in, North Kingshighvay and Cape Rock Drive, died at 1:30 Friday afternoon (Dec. 4, 1970) in a Cape Girardeau nursing home where she had been a patient five years. She had been ill six years.
Mrs. Lewis, 80 years old, was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Cape Navy Mothers League. The family house is at 800 North Kingshighway, Cape Girardeau.
Services were conducted at 2 Sunday afternoon at First Presbyterian Church by the Pastor, Dr. E.C. Brasington, burial in Memorial Park.
The former Miss Ethel M. Miller, Mrs. Lewis was born Jan. 25, 1890, at Des Arc where she married Mr. Lewis in May, 1916.
They moved to Cape Girardeau in 1936 and operated the business with their sons many years, Mrs. Lewis actively engaged in the duties. Mr. Lewis died in 1958.
Survivors include the four sons, Frank M., Francis F., Freeman D. and Billie J. Lewis, and two daughters, Mrs. Truman J. Howard and Mrs. E. Lawrence Bahn Jr., all of Cape Girardeau.
Also surviving are three brothers, W.G. Miller, Amarillo, Tex., Sam
Miller, Jefferson, Iowa, and Posey Miller, Annapolis; three sisters, Mrs. Maude McCormick, Piedmont, Mrs. Elmer Lovelace, Pilot Knob, and Mrs. Charles Dorsey,
Farmington, and twelve grandchildren.
Pallbearers were grandsons of Mrs. Lewis, Taylor and Wm. Bahn, Richard Howard, Robert Lewis, Benny Lewis, Jon Alan Lewis and Duane Lewis.
(WAYNE COUNTY JOURNAL BANNER newspaper ...Piedmont, Wayne County, Missouri... Thursday, December 10, 1970)


Children:
FRANK MILLER LEWIS b.11 Mar 1917
FRANCIS FULTON LEWIS b.31 Oct 1918 d. 1 Jun 1988
FRIEDA ABIGAIL LEWIS b.29 Dec 1920
FREEMAN DALE LEWIS b.20 Jan 1923
MARTHA LETA LEWIS b. 2 Jan 1925
BILLIE JAY LEWIS b. 3 Feb 1929 d. 12 Apr 2005

Research notes courtesy of Linda E. Lewis, “George Lewis Descendants”, published October 1992.

Written by oldest grandchild - Richard Lewis Howard in May 2023:

Who was your maternal grandmother and what are your memories of her?

Ethel Mayme Miller born 25 January 1890 in Des Arc Missouri, the third child of Jay Lafayette Miller and Martha Eveline King. She was married to Fred Lewis in Des Arc, Missouri on 23 May 1916 when she was 26 years old. A funny and interesting fact about my grandmother was that she sued her to be husband Fred when he broke his promise to marry her. I guess she didn’t want a good man to get away? Everything worked out in the end as they were married an had six children together.

Grandma Ethel was a strong, stern, and no non-sense woman. A living example of a matriarch. Without question, she was the boss! Raising six kids on the farm for 20 years was not easy. When the boys left the farm, it became to much work for them so they left the farm in 1936 and moved into town in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. They bought a house on Henderson Street in Cape Girardeau one block from the state college. For several years grandma and grandpa ran a boarding house for women college students. They still lived at this address when I was born in 1944.

In 1942, their son Freeman Dale Lewis changed the family’s life forever when with a loan from my mother, Frieda, bought a small hamburger stand. They named the business Wimpy’s. Wimpy’s would eventually provide the livelihood for grandma, grandpa and three of their sons families, as well as to grow into three locations in town. It was the first combination drive-in restaurant and food store in town. And a well known and famous stopping place for travelers on highway 61 between Memphis, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri.

I have fond memories of this restaurant. Sometimes in the summer time I would help out by carhopping, filling and sorting the soda cases, and restocking shelves in the store. My favorite thing to do as a kid was stocking the cigarette packages in the dispenser by the check-out register. The art work was amazing and colorful and they smelled so good. If you are wondering: “No, I never did smoke.”

Grandma Ethel was a good businesswoman. She and grandpa ran Wimpy’s while their sons were in the service during World War II. But, according to my mother, grandma was the boss. Grandma ran the restaurant and grandpa mostly the food store side. Grandma was a great cook and did most of the cooking for the restaurant. Every morning she would get up early and make homemade pies. They were popular fare with customers. In addition to the famous Wimpy burger and sides they also served meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I didn’t work with grandma. I don’t think she probably had time for a little kid and the kitchen didn’t attract me. She always seemed very busy.

Sometime in the late 1940’s, Grandma and Grandpa Lewis built a house on the property adjacent to Wimpy’s. This house with its three levels was huge to me. My cousins and I spent a lot of time in this house. The third level was not used except for company so it was the play area for all us cousins away from our parents. Sometimes we had sleepovers there. Later on they sublet the basement apartment which became off limits to us kids.

Like I said grandma was a good cook. And she used this to keep her family close. She hosted dinner for the entire extended family for every holiday. These were big get-togethers, with my grandparents, twelve aunts and uncles and twelve of us cousins. They were a big deal and if you missed you had better have a good excuse. My best memories of grandma are from these days we all spent together.

Grandma also had a green thumb when it came to growing things. Obviously from growing up as a farm girl. She had a big enclosed back porch on one side of the house full of pots of flowers and other colorful things. She spent most of her time gardening and doing needlework. I remember all the beautiful lap throws she made for people.

Grandma and Grandpa had the first TV in our family. It was a 21 inch Zenith console. Sunday nights would often be a time family members gathered at grandma and grandpa’s house to watch this new form of entertainment.

My memories of grandma came mostly from observing her as I grew up. She didn’t spend much personal time with me or any of her other eleven grandchildren as for as I know. But, she did have a lot of influence on me from just watching her. I learned the importance of family and that hard work is rewarded. A side observation here. It seems work was never a problem with her offspring. All my twelve aunts and uncles, including my parents worked at jobs outside the home and were successful in their careers. I guess she raised her kids well!

Buried:
Grave 5 - Lot 170 - Section 8

findagrave memorial #115284711

Grave 5 - Lot 170 - Section 8

Section 8, Lot 170, Grave 2

Notes:

!MARRIAGE LICENSE STATE OF MISSOURI... COUNTY OF IRON ...This License authorizes any Judge of a Court of Record or any Justice of the Peace, or any licensed or ordained Preacher of the Gospel, who is a Citizen of the United States, or who is a resident ofand a Pastor of any Church in this State to solemnize Marriage between Fred Lewis of Des Arc in the County of Iron and State of Missouri who is over the age of twenty-one years, and Ethel M. Miller of Des Arc in the County of Iron and State of Missouri who is over the age of eighteen years. This is to certify that I did on the 27th day of May unite in marriage Fred Lewis and Ethel M. Miller.

Witness My Hand, as Circuit Clerk and exOfficio Recorder of Deeds with the Seal of Office hereto affixed at my Office in Ironton No this 23rd day of may 1916.

J.M. Hawkins, Circuit Clerk and exOfficio Recorder of Deeds

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STATE OF MISSOURI, COUNTY OF IRON ...This is to Certify, that the undersigned, Fred Lewis and Ethel M. Miller did, at Des Arc in said County, on the 27 day of May A. D. 1916 unite in Marriage the above named persons, and I further certify that I as legally qualified under the Laws of the State of Missouri to solemnize Marriages.

Eld. H. J. Wray.
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The foregoing Certificate of Marriage was filed for Record in my office on the
26 day of June A.D. 1916
J. M. Hawkins, Circuit Clerk and exOfficio Recorder of Deeds
(Copy of certificate obtained from Carolyn Keathley McBurney in June 1991)

!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
DES ARC ITEMS

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis called while at their old home last Sunday, and said they were all well contented with the new home over at the Cape. (IRON COUNTY REGISTER newspaper... Ironton, Missouri ...January 5, 1939)

!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis and son from Cape Girardeau were here last week to visit his brother, James Lewis and family. They had been to Ironton to visit his sister, Mrs. Tyler Keathley who is ill but we are glad to report her as improved. (DES ARC HARKENINSS column ...THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper ...Ironton, Iron County, Missouri ...Thursday, May 12, 1955)

!OBITUARY
FRED LEWIS, 77, CAPE BUSINESS MAN, DIES, BORN AT ANNAPOLIS

Fred Lewis, 77 years old, president of the Wimpy’s DriveIn and Market, 800 North Kingshighway, Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday night, July 22, at 6:10 at a hospital there where he had been admitted Saturday from the family home at 819 West Cape Rock Drive. Mr. Lewis had been in failing health three months.

Funeral services were conducted last Thursday afternoon at 2 at First Presbyterian Church Cape Girardeau, by the pastor. Rev. C.E. Mount. Interment was in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Pallbearers, all nephews, were Buford Lewis, Howard Lewis, Darwin Lewis, Russell Lewis, Elvis Lewis and Orville Lewis.

Surviving relatives are his wife, Mrs. Ethel Lewis; four sons, Frank, Francis, Freeman and Billie J. Lewis, all of Cape; two daughters, Mrs. Truman Howard and Mrs. E. Lawrence Bahn of Cape Girardeau and 11 grandchildren.
Two brothers surviving are J.M. Lewis of Des Arc and W.W. Lewis of Flat River.
Born January 16, 1881, at Annapolis, he Married Miss Ethel Miller on May 27, 1916. Mr. Lewis engaged in farming until they moved to Cape Girardeau in 1938 from Des Arc. In 1942, he and two of the sons, Freeman and Billie opened the present place ofbusiness. The son, Frank, joined the firm in 1948.
Mr. Lewis was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau..
(Thursday, July 31, 1958...Copy of newspaper clipping was received in September 1992 from Mary Lu Politte. She obtained the article from Naomi Lewis Zager)

!NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Mrs. James Lewis and Darwin Lewis, Mrs. Everett Seal, Mr. and Mrs. Buford Lewis attended the funeral of Fred Lewis at Cape Girardeau last week. Mr. Lewis was born and reared on a farm near Des Arc and had many friends here. His funeral was held from the Presbyterian Church at Cape Girardeau where he was an active member. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Ethel Lewis and a number of children and grandchildren. We sympathize with the bereaved ones.
(THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper ...Ironton, Iron County, Missouri... July 31, 1958)

Research notes courtesy of Linda E. Lewis, “George Lewis Descendants”, published October 1992.

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• Confirmation: 5 Apr 1914, Trinity Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
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Benjamin married Selma Sophia Augusta Meyer on 18 Oct 1922 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Selma (daughter of William Otto Meyer and Hulda Amelia Kurre) was born on 12 Nov 1899 in Oak Ridge, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 04 May 1980 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Confirmation: 5 Apr 1914, Trinity Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
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