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From: Martha Reddout <>
Subject: [OKLOVE] Verna Faye Lewis
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:09:44 -0600

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Surname: Lewis, Spence
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Services for Verna Faye Lewis, 85, of Yuma, Arizona, were held at 10 a.m.
Thursday, March 8, in the Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home Chapel with Bro.
Ray Hilliard officiating.

Mrs. Lewis was born February 29, 1916, in DeQueen, Arkansas, the daughter
of Will and Myrtle Smith Spence. She died Saturday, March 3, 2001, in a
Boarding Home in Yuma.

She had made her home in Yuma for the past 20 years, moving there from
Oakdale, California. A homemaker, Mrs. Lewis was employed as a cook at
the Greenville School and also as a dietician at Stanford University, Stanford,
California, before her retirement. She was of the Baptist faith. She was
married to W.E. "Ed" Lewis and he preceded her in death in 1975.

Survivors include a son, Jerry Lewis of Yuma; two daughters, Ann Stewart
of Yuma and Judy Lopez of Mi-Wuk Village, California; a sister, Marine
Jacobs of Marietta; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Lewis was also preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Marcena
Lewis; a son, Tommy Lewis; and four brothers, Charlie Spence, Tom Spence,
Don Spence and Harold Spence.

Serving as pallbearers were Jeff Jacobs, Jay Lewis, Allen Woody, Ronald
Jacobs, Jesse Kirk and Duard Sharp. Honorary pallbearers were Claude Brannan,
Clyde Rhoades, Monroe Thompson, Jack McGehee, Rudolph McGehee and David
McGehee.

Interment was in the Greenville Cemetery, Greenville,(Love County, OK)under
the direction of Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home.

Printed in the Marietta Monitor - March 9, 2001, page 4

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