Extracted from The Palestine Herald Press (Palestine, TX)
Saturday, May 2, 1970

MRS. J.W. LEWIS

Mrs. J.W. (Frankie) LEWIS, a resident of the Perk Community of Anderson County for more than half a century, died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday in a Palestine hospital following a brief illness. She was 92.

Funeral service are to be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the First Baptist Church of Neches, with the Rev. Olen Cantrell officiating. Burial will follow in the Neches Cemetery....

Mrs. lewis, the former Miss Frances Dianne IVINS, was born December 5, 1877 in Caddo, parish, La. , a dauhter [sic] of the late Bill Ivins and Mrs. Henretta Russell Ivins. She was a member of the Baptist Church of Neches.

She is survived by her husband, J.W. Lewis of pert; Four sons, Vaden Lewis of pert, Revis Lewis of Shrevport, Elton Lewis of Washington, D.C.; Two daughters, Mrs. Jake (Jessie) Lively of Pasadena, and Mrs. Cammie Hammack of Shreveport; 12 grandchildren and several nieces & nephews.

Note: Mrs. Cammie Hammack was Frankie's sister, not her daughter.