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May Lewis, 97, of
Nampa, died Tuesday, April 18, 1995, at a
Nampa
care center. Funeral
services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, April 21, at
Grace Episcopal Church with the Rev. Father Milt Holmes,
rector of the church, officiating.
Eastern Star Rites
and burial will follow in Kohlerlawn Cemetery
under the direction of Persons-Flahiff Funeral Chapel, Nampa.
May was born November 17, 1897, at Hale,
Kan., a daughter of Henry Lee and
Josie Metcalf Cox. As
a small child, she traveled with her family by covered wagon
from Kansas to Rocky Ford, Colo., and in 1904 from Colorado
to Idaho where they settled for a time at Montour, where May
attended grade school in a one-room building on the Arten
Ranch. When she became a freshman, they moved back to
Nampa and she attended high school at
Kenwood School, graduating in 1915.
On Feb. 26, 1916,
she married Karl R. (Jack) Lewis in
Nampa.
In October 1916,
they moved to Salt Lake City,
Utah, where Jack worked in a
munitions plant, but in 1918 Jack contracted influenza and
could no longer work in an engine room.
They moved to Glendale (near Melba) and farmed and in 1926
moved to the Flahiff farm at Melba.
In 1939, they
family moved to Nampa and May worked for
Falk's Department Store and then in the office of Troy
Laundry. During the
war years (1941 to 1945) she worked in the office of the
O.P.A. and during this time she became the first person in
Idaho to
become a certified Nurses Aide and later served as state
president of the Nurses Aide Association.
In 1949, she began working for Carroll Hurst
Insurance Agency and in 1957 began work as a secretary at
Intermountain Gas Company. She
and Jack both retired in 1962.
Mr. Lewis died Feb.
26, 1965.
In
1966, she was employed as office manager for the Nampa
Downtown Merchants Association, working from the office of
Frank Bevington, retiring again in 1982 at the age of 84
years.
May was
a member of Grace Episcopal Church; she was instrumental in
the institution of Rainbow Chapter No. 60, O.E.S. of which
she was a charter member and served as its 4th worthy
matron.
Survivors include her daughter, Marjorie Owen of Warden,
Wash.; a daughter-in-law, Doris
Lewis of Buhl; three grandchildren, Joe Owen, Mary Keller,
Kelly Lewis; four great-grandchildren, and three
great-great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by
a son, Karl R. (Jack) Lewis Jr., two granddaughters, three
sisters and one brother.
Friends may call
until 9 tonight, and on Friday until noon at Persons-Flahiff
Funeral Chapel and may meet at the church for services.
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