Rev. Lawrence B. Lewis
July 25, 1900-Dec. 19, 1975
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Friday, December 19, 1975, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
NILES—The Rev. Lawrence B. Lewis, 75, of 2787 Detroit Rd., died at 5:30 a.m. today in Pawating Hospital following an illness of about a month and a half.
He was a member of John W. Moore Masonic Lodge and Mt. Calvary Baptist Church and retired from Clark Equipment Co. in 1966.
Rev. Lewis was born July 25, 1900, in Huntsville, Ala., and moved to Niles 32 years ago from Arkansas.
In 1959 in Cassopolis, he married the former Lela Smith, who survives.
Other survivors are two sons, William M. of Chicago and David of Ann Arbor; a daughter, Trenda Thompson of Niles; a brother, James Lewis of Niles; five sisters, Elizabeth Ewing of West Memphis, Ark., Olive Nichols of Earl, Ark. Ora Vance of Cincinnati, Ohio, Velma Sherman of Memphis, Tenn. and Una Belle Jones of Vincent, Ark., and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. W.L. Daniel officiating. Burial will follow in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Pifer Chapel of the Swem-Smith Funeral Home after noon Sunday. A wake will be held at the chapel from 7 to 8 p.m. Sunday.