Virginia Lewis
August 27, 2010
Virginia Lewis, 89, St. Joseph, Missouri passed away Thursday, August 26, 2010 after a short illness.
Virginia's life was dedicated to living and witnessing to the Good News, the Gospel. After her graduation from Savannah High School in 1938, she attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and was married to the Rev. Lee Lewis in June, 1943. They were partners in ministry; he as a pastor and she as a Christian educator until his death in 1971. She was long-time director of WMU at First Baptist Church and continued to teach Sunday School until her hospitalization in late July.
Virginia joins a Great Cloud of Witnesses that includes, with all the Saints, her parents and five brothers who preceded her in death.
She is survived by her brother, Herbert Farmer of St. Joseph, two children, Virginia Lee Lewis of Prairie Village, Kansas and Paul A. Lewis of Macon Georgia, one grandson, Timothy M. Lewis of Macon, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Service of Witness to the Resurrection and celebration of life 11 am, Saturday First Baptist Church. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation will begin after 2pm Friday at Heaton-Bowman-Smith & Sidenfaden Chapel where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday evening. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions be made to the Memorial Fund of First Baptist Church.
"Jesus said,"I am the resurrection and the life."
Virginia Lewis
August 27, 2010
Virginia Lewis, 89, St. Joseph, Missouri passed away Thursday, August 26, 2010 after a short illness.
Virginia's life was dedicated to living and witnessing to the Good News, the Gospel. After her graduation from Savannah High School in 1938, she attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and was married to the Rev. Lee Lewis in June, 1943. They were partners in ministry; he as a pastor and she as a Christian educator until his death in 1971. She was long-time director of WMU at First Baptist Church and continued to teach Sunday School until her hospitalization in late July.
Virginia joins a Great Cloud of Witnesses that includes, with all the Saints, her parents and five brothers who preceded her in death.
She is survived by her brother, Herbert Farmer of St. Joseph, two children, Virginia Lee Lewis of Prairie Village, Kansas and Paul A. Lewis of Macon Georgia, one grandson, Timothy M. Lewis of Macon, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Service of Witness to the Resurrection and celebration of life 11 am, Saturday First Baptist Church. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation will begin after 2pm Friday at Heaton-Bowman-Smith & Sidenfaden Chapel where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday evening. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions be made to the Memorial Fund of First Baptist Church.
"Jesus said,"I am the resurrection and the life."
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