Willie
Franklin Lewis
and Ada Dixon
Willie Franklin Lewis b about 1895 d 29 Jun 1923 Letcher Co
KY of typhoid fever s/o
Isaac Newton Lewis
and Elizabeth Fairchild. Willie Franklin Lewis m. 24 Sept 1913 to Ada
Dixon b 20 Feb 1893 d 1 May 1972 d/o
William Caudill
Dixon and Martha Back (aka Bach). Children of Willie Franklin Lewis
and Ada Dixon;
I.
Stella Irene Lewis b 7 Jul 1914 d 19 Mar, 2006 m 11 Jun, 1938 to
Joe Coleman Reynolds
b 18 Mar 1909 Seco Letcher Co KY d 10 Sept 1994, Whitesburg, Letcher Co
KY, age 86 years of Parkinson Disease; s/o
William
Henry Reynolds II and Mahala Hall.
II. Edwin Russell Lewis (See Photo) b September 7, 1916 d February 13,
2005; member of the National Guard, Harlan, KY, (See
Article) graduated
National
Orphan's Home, Tiffin, OH, military service, officer's training, Fort
Benning, GA (promoted to 1st Lieutenant); advanced officer's training,
Fort Benning, GA promoted to Captain at Camp Swift, TX; transferred to
Eighth Corps Headquarters, Camp Bowie, TX; transferred to Ft Sam Houston,
TX; assigned to study at staff college at Fort Leavenworth, KS; last
station in US was Indiantown Gap, PA; assigned with a major's
commission in charge of an infantry Battalion. US Army Infantry Battalion
Major; m. April 16, 1938 to Beulah Pansy Helton. Child of Edwin Russell
Lewis and Beulah Pansy Helton;
1. Laddie Russell Lewis
III. Quentin Herman Lewis b June 28, 1918 d
23 Jan 2009; graduated
National
Orphan's Home, Tiffin, OH; military service, US Army 1st Lieutenant;
education, University of Kentucky graduate; m (1) November 23, 1946 Nancy
Christine Lewis; m. (2) March 14, 1951 Jean Hembree. (Quentin
and brother, Edwin in Army Write up In Paper). (Our condolences go out
to this family for the loss of Quentin Herman Lewis on 23 Jan 2009).
IV. Evaleen Lewis b September 28, 1920 m (1) April 22, 1942
Richard Lawrence Davidson; m. (2) July 19, 1948 Frank Towery
V. Thomas Lewis b October 6, 1921 d October 6, 1921
VI. Willa Elizabeth Lewis b December 11, 1923 d June 29,
2006, graduated
National
Orphan's Home, Tiffin, OH, valedictorian of the 1942 class;
member of the
US Army Nurse Cadets, trained at Louisville General Hospital; (See
Article); m. July 21, 1946 to James Avery Mullins, Jr.
Thanks to
Wanda Rodgers
Reynolds and John
Christopher Reynolds for submitting this information by email on 9 Jul 2008.
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