----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 12/ /1945

GEORGE LEWIS

Greenwood--Funeral services for George Lewis, 54, who died at Hines Memorial Hospital, Hines, Ill., Saturday, Dec. 1, 1945, were held in Greenwood, Clark County Thursday afternoon, Dec. 6 at the Schiller Funeral Home. The Rev. Alex J. Abbott officiated, and interment was made in Greenwood Cemetery. The Henry D. Wallis Post of the American Legion, Greenwood, had charge of the military rites at the grave.

During the service Misses Ilene and Irene Abbott, accompanied by Mrs. John Meng, sang God's Tomorrow , Nearer My God To Thee , and Only Shadows. Pallbearers were John Zimmer, John Arends, W. C. Steiger, Adolph Schwarze, Theodore Hines, and Hubert Kuehn.

George Leroy Lewis, son of the late Emanuel Lewis and Mrs. Charles Churkey, was born in the Town of Warner Sept. 17, 1891, his parents living on a farm 3 1/2 miles northwest of Greenwood. After completing rural school he was employed in this community until entering the Army in World War I.

In 1920 he was married to Nellie Ferguson, who resides in Appleton. Also surviving are four children, Mrs. Lillian Pumpa and Robert Lewis of Appleton, Lucia of Chicago, and Loise of the U.S. Navy his mother, Mrs. Charles Churkey, Owen two brothers, Casper and Foss Lewis Chicago and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Strassburg, Manawa.

His father and two sisters, Reed and Lottie, preceded him in death.