Obit for Lillie posted by Jo Aguirre
Sep 21, 1919 - Dec 26, 2004

BARTLESVILLE EXAMINER-ENTERPRISE
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)- Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Lillie Clare Lewis, 85, resident of Bartlesville, died at 6:03 PM on Sunday in the C.C.U. of the Jane Phillips Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Bartlesville, with Rev. Herman Wood of Collinsville, Oklahoma and John Wood of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma officiating. Graveside services and interment will be under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home.

Mrs. Lewis was born September 21, 1919 at Muldrow, Oklahoma to Rev. Thomas Pleasant and Sarah Ellen (Combs) Wood. She was raised and received her education near Muldrow, Oklahoma. Mrs. Lewis was married to Thomas Monroe Lewis II on September 21, 1934 at Muskogee, Oklahoma. They worked in harvesting fruits and vegetables as stoop labor; in the Moor-Pak Cannery and the Pollock Shipyards (as welders) all in the Stockton, California area during WWII. They owned and operated the Lewis Grade "A" Dairy in Galt, California for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis owned and operated a ranch near Porum, Oklahoma, they also owned and operated restaurants Sand Ridge, Oklahoma and Porum, Oklahoma until moving to Bartlesville in the late 1970's. Mrs. Lewis was of the Freewill Baptist Faith.

Survivors include her daughters; Evelyn "Eve" Lewis Halluma and Joan Lewis Virden both of Bartlesville; one brother Columbus Wood of Muskogee, Oklahoma; one sister Bess Coughran of Porum, Oklahoma; three grandsons Lance Virden and Chad E. Virden of Bartlesville and Matthew Mack of Rancho Cordova, California; one great-grandson Eric Benton Virden and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Lewis was preceded in death by her parents, one daughter Shirley June (Lewis) Mack; four brothers Oren Wood, Roy Wood, Ona Wood and Jess Wood; two sisters Bertha Wood Reese and Violet Wood Coughran.