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Submitted: 11/14/21 • Approved: 11/15/21 • Last Updated: 11/18/21 • R468659-G0-S3
US National Guard
February 26, 1935-February 15, 1994
Shared stone with Beverly L.
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Jerry Lee Lewis, 58, died Tuesday, February 15, 1994.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Wheeler Church of Christ with Bill Morrison, minister, officiating. Burial will be in the Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Lewis was born in Wheeler and attended school here. He married Beverly Bradshaw in 1954 at Wheeler. He moved to Azle and lived there until 1976, when they moved to Santa Fe, N.M. The couple returned to Wheeler in 1991. He worked for General dynamics in Ft. Worth for 20 years. He also had worked in real estate and for the Texas Refining Co. in Santa Fe. He has served with the National Guard. He was a member of Church of Christ.
Pallbearers are Monty Fastnacht, Huey Ley, Ken Hastey, Lyndon Loyd, Rodney Puryear and Larry Finsterwald. Honorary pallbearers are George McLaurin, Daryl Snelgrooes, Malvin Coate, Elmer Harrison, Skeet Johnson, Brady Meadows and Bob McCain.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Lanette Lewis of Kotzebue, Alaska and Beverly Gene deGruyther of Albuquerque, N.M.; a sister, Amy Contino of Toronto, Canada and four grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to the American Heart Association.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 60, Number 12, Thursday, February 17, 1994, Page 1)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Jerry Lee Lewis
Date of Birth: 26 Feb 1935
Gender: Male
Birth County: Wheeler
Father's Name: C L Lewis
Mother's name: Gene Muse
Roll number: 1935_0005
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Jerry Lewis
Death Date: 15 Feb 1994
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male
Contributed on 11/14/21
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Record #: 468659