Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Friday, December 30, 1960

LEWIS FAMILY

DERIDDER (Spl.) -- Combined funeral services for four members of the Reece D. Lewis family are scheduled Saturday.

Mr. Lewis, 77, and a son, Jesse Wallace [sic Wallis], 46, died in an automobile accident at 12:20 p.m. Thursday on U.S. Highway 190 six miles south of DeRidder. Another son, Junior Ray Lewis, 40, and Mrs. Katie C. Lewis, wife of Wallace [sic Wallis] died about three hours later in a DeRidder hospital.

Bodies of the four are at the Hixson funeral home in DeRidder. Time of services will be announced by the funeral home. Services will be in the First Pentecostal church with Rev. A. W. Buie officiating. Burial will be in Cypress cemetery.

Survivors of Mr. Reece Lewis are four sons, Herman, R. P. and Fred Lewis, all of DeRidder and Guthrie Lewis of Lake Charles; two daughters, Mrs. Luther J. Goins and Mrs. Rufus Goins, both of DeRidder; 24 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren; two brothers, W. I. and Fletcher Lewis, both of DeRidder; and two sisters, Mrs. Martha Baggett of Kinder and Mrs. Naomi Moses of DeRidder.

Survivors of Mr. Wallace [sic Wallis] Lewis are five daughters, Mrs. Orville Bass and Mrs. Billie Jean Lester, both of Alexandria, Miss Peggy Lewis, Miss Velva Lewis, and Miss Deborah Lewis, all of DeRidder; a son, Wallas Lavon Lewis of DeRidder; four brothers; two sisters and three grandchildren.

Mrs. Lewis is survived by her father, Arthur Midkiff of DeRidder; five brothers, Byron Midkiff of Waco, Tex., Newland, Hoyt and Beeman Midkiff, all of Lake Charles and Wesley Midkiff of Seattle, Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. R. P. Lewis of DeRidder and Mrs. Orval Stevinson of Lake Charles; five daughters and three grandchildren.

Junior Ray Lewis is survived by four brothers and two sisters.