Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-11
PROMINENT ALMA YOUNG
MAN DIED HERE MONDAY
William A. Ewing, Well Known
Alma Resident, Passed Away
at Home of His Parents.

On Monday evening of this week
occurred the death of William Arthur
Ewing, son of DR.. and Mrs. j. 7.
Ewing, for many years residents Of
this city.
VIII, as he was familiarly called
by his many friends, was so well and
so favorably known that his death
came as a shock to the entire COM
munity, and especially TO the people
Of the college.
The Ewing family have been iden-
titled with the life and history of
Alma college as no other family have.
Wills grandfather, Joseph w. Ewing,
was a member Of the faculty when
the doors of the college were first
opened in the autumn of 1887, and
was prominent in the earlier discus
sions which resulted in the founding
of the college.
In the autumn of 1890, DR.. and
Mrs. j. T. Ewing came to Alma from
Wooster, Ohio, where the DR.. had
been Assistant Professor of Greek
and Principal of the Academy of the
University. They brought with them
their three little boys-Ernest, HUI
bert, and Will, all of whom are now
gone.
Will was less than year old when
his parents came to Alma, being born
October 8, 1889. He grew to young
manhood here in our midst; went to
the kindergarten at the college in
1893 and '94; entered the public
schools in 1895; passed through the
grades of our schools and enrolled as
student in the academy Of the
college in 1905; became a member Of
the Freshman class in 1909, and was
graduated with the degree of A. b.
in 1913; joined the local chapter of
the Masonic order, and has taken
both the consistory and the shrine.
He joined the Presbyterian church
in 1906 at the age of fifteen years,
and from that time on was promi-
nent in church activities, and always
lived consistent Christian life.
After graduation from college, Mr..
Ewing accepted a position as teacher
of history in the high school at Char
levoix, Michigan, and the next year
was made principal of the high
school, a position which Ire held for
two years.
As might be expected he was emf
nently successful as a teacher, for he
had teaching in his blood, as it were,
but he never intended to follow the
profession. And when an opportun-
ity presented itself in 1916 he became
assistant editor Of the Alma Record.
1t was not long, however, till the
Republic Truck Co., recognizing his
ability induced him to enter their
sales department as assistant sales
manager, where he remained until
February, 1919. 1t was here that he
became associated with Mr.. Milton A.
Holmes, then head Of the sales de-
partment Of the Republic.
On Nov. 21, 1916, Mr.. Ewing was
married to Miss Marguerite O'Neil,
Of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. They
had been classmates in college and
were graduated together in the class
of 1913. One child has been born to
them, William Philip, now nearly two
years old.
Mr.. Ewing remained with the Re-
public until i'll health compelled him
to take a rest. He spent three months
at the Howell Sanitorium and then
went to the 500 for a further rest.
Apparently recovered in health and
anxious to be at work again, he en-
tered the employ of the Transport
Truck Company of Mt. Pleasant as
Assistant Sales Manager in Septem-
Der, 1919.
1t was not long before his old
trouble returned, but he persisted in
his work until the last week in the
year. when he was forced to take an
other rest, and came TO his home in
Alma. II was his intention TO go in
the spring to a climate better suited
to him. With this in mind he fought
hopefully and courageously until the
end came at 1915 p. m. on Monday,
March 8, 1920.
Calmly he looked on either Life,
and here
Saw nothing TO regret, or there
to fear"
VIII Ewing was young man of
exceptionally fine fiber. He could, of
course, hardly be otherwise with such
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