Extracted from The Alexandria Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Eula Gill Ewing

Celebration of Life for Eula Gill Ewing will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, January 15, 2012, at St. Clair Baptist Church, 940 St. Clair Road, Boyce, Louisiana with Reverend Charles Rogers, MDir, MD, officiating.

Mrs. Ewing, 90, of Boyce, passed away Friday, January 13, 2012, at Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital, Alexandria.

She was a member of St. Clair Baptist Church, Boyce. Mrs. Ewing graduated from McNeese State University with a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Education. She taught elementary education for 17 years, in Singer. Mrs. Ewing lived in the Boyce, Cotile Lake Area for 28 years. She was a member of Eastern Star Order No. 52.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 28 years, Elmer R. Ewing, Sr.; parents, Roy & Cynthia Elizabeth Burns Gill; sister, Norma Gill Doswell; and great granddaughter, Jordan McLeod.

Those left to cherish her memory include her daughters, Cheryl Moses McLeod of DeQuincy, Gwendolyn Moses Keran, Pace, Florida, Norma Moses Hackler (Craig), Austin, Texas, and Kathy Moses Nafe (Robert) of Marshall, Texas; grandchildren, Patricia McLeod Bonin (Keith), Roy McLeod (Stephanie), Amy Keran Bennett (Lee), Shane Nafe (Venida), Joshua Nafe (Sarah), Elizabeth C. Hackler; thirteen great grandchildren; stepson, Elmer “Bubba” Ewing of Boyce, stepdaughters, Rita Sallas of Wadsworth, IL and Ann Hilderbrand of Mobile, Alabama; niece, Patsy Doswell Raiford (Ed) of DeRidder and numerous great nephews and nieces.

Special thanks to caregivers, Robin Bennett, M.D., Rajat Gulati, M.D., Charles Rogers, MDiv., M.D., John L. Gosserand, M.D., Cabrini Hospital Staff, Helen Mason, Alisha Mason, in home health care workers, Claude “Rutt” Horne, Kidney Dialysis, at Cabrini, and Coy Raiford, great nephew, for their kind and compassionate care.

Memorials may be made to Louisiana Methodist Children's Home, P. O. Box 929, Ruston, LA 71273-0929 or charity of donor's choice.

To extend online condolences to the Ewing family, please visit us at www.hixsonbrothers.com.