Dateline: February 22, 2007

Edna Earle Lewis, 82, died Friday, February 16, 2007, in Amarillo.

Services were held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, February 19, 2007, in the Robertson Funeral Directors Chapel of Memories with Rev. Bryan Knowles, retired Baptist Minister, officiating. Interment was held at Citizens Cemetery. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors, Inc., of Clarendon.

Mrs. Lewis was born August 5, 1924, in Clarendon to Earl and Elizabeth Wisdom Lafon. She married Earnest Leland Lewis on January 14, 1940, in Hollis, Oklahoma. She was a homemaker, bus driver, and was a registered nurse for the Sweetwater Hospital, Groom Memorial Hospital, and Northwest Texas Hospital. She belonged to the Church of Christ.

Mrs. Lewis was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on October 30, 1986; two sons, Billy and Larry Lewis; and by all her brothers and sisters.

Survivors include three sons, Earnest C. Lewis and wife Chris of Amarillo, Millard Howell Lewis and wife Charlene of Groom; Robert Leland “Bob” Lewis and wife Janet of Lubbock; 12 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.

The family requests that memorials be sent to the Amarillo S.P.C.A. or to the Amarillo Humane Society.