Harry James Ewing - 1913-1990

EWING, BRAY, WEBSTER, KRIZ, RIBBY, POTTER, BUCHANAN, BLOXHAM, MAY

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 11/6/2011 at 19:31:43

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON STANDARD, March 27, 1990
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Bray Family Researcher)

Funeral services for Harry James Ewing, age 76, of rural Lansing, Iowa have been set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 28 at Martin Funeral Chapel with Pastor Verdon Swenson officiating. Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Tama, Iowa. Casket bearers will be Harris McKee, Eric Buchanan, Joel Potter, Alan Ribby, Chris Ribby, and Steven Ewing.

Harry James Ewing, son of Charles W. Ewing, Sr. and Ruby (Bray) Ewing. He attended rural Forest Mills schools. On November 5, 1938 he married Charlene Webster. On January 18, 1953 he married Agnes Kriz at the Methodist Church in Dubuque, Iowa. Agnes died in 1975. Harry worked in lumber mills as a sawyer in Monticello, Cascade, Monona, Cedar Rapids, Oxford Junction, Tama, and Dows, Iowa. He was a member of Fraternal Order of Eagles in Tama and Mississippi Valley Sportsman's Club of Lansing, Iowa.

Harry James Ewing died Sunday, March 25, 1990 at the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon, Iowa. He was preceded in death by his parents, a son Wesley Ewing, two granddaughters, and three brothers, Willis Ewing, Charles Ewing, Jr., and Arthur Ewing.

Harry is survived by a son, Donald Ewing of Lansing, Iowa, and 3 daughters, Denise (Gene) Ribby of Montour, Iowa, Dixie (Bruce) Potter of Tama, Iowa, and Jacque (Charles) Buchanan of South Beloit, Illinois; 12 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren; 2 brothers, Kenneth Ewing of Waukon, Iowa, and Keith Ewing of Corvalis, Oregon and 2 sisters, Ruth (Keith) Bloxham of Waukon, Iowa and Helen (James) May of Dallas, Texas.