The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-06-16


city early Tuesday morning that Mrs.
Isabel Warner Lewis, wife of DR.. E..
]. Lewis, pioneer Sank Centre physi-
clan, had passed away a few hours
previous, there was a profound feel
ing of sorrow.
The day and evening before her
death she had been up and around
her usual activities, looking after her
household duties and visiting with
neighbors. She gave her all to her
family and to her community and
state, with the result that she had
been in poor health for the past few
years. DR.. and Mrs. Lewis had spent
the past three winters in Florida.
Upon the return several weeks ago,
she resumed her household and civic
duties.
Ever prominent in civic work that
tended to make Sank Centre better
place in which to live, Mrs. Lewis had
at some time or another, come in
personal and helpful contact with
every element in the community. She
was leading member in the Grada-
tim Club; Monday Musical Club and
the w. N. A, and was actively iden-
titled in State Federation club work.
During the world war, Mrs. Lewis
carried the heavy burden of taking
charge of all the knitting carried on
by the Sank Centres very aggressive
Red Cross. She gave all she was
able to this work, and more. Words
of Commentator received from the
Northern division of the Red Cross
for the quality and quantity Of her
department was one of the things
which aided greatly in making the
work of the local Red Cross so
splendidly successful.
Sank Centre was one of the very
first communities in the United States
to establish a rest room for women
and children many years ago. Mrs.
Lewis was prominent in this work
and has always had an active hand
in the management in this place
maintained by the city which is visit
ed by an average of nearly one
thousand each month of the year.
Isabel Warner was born at North
vile, ILL.,, May IL, 1912. She moved
to Chicago with her parents in 1870,
and on July 2 1892, became the wife
Of DR.. E. J. Lewis, the ceremony tax
ing place at Chicago. She immedia-
tely came to Sank Centre with her
husband and assumed the response
biEty of loving, caring for and rails
ing the three step-sons, Claude
Fred and Harry (Sinclair.
so Mrs. Lewis was born executive
and gave Of her splendid talents in
organizing the Sixth District of the
Minnesota Federation of Women's
Clubs. She was also prominent in
the work of the Minnesota Federation
of Women's Clubs and for many
years had been the State Federation s
custodian. She was charter mem
Der Of Naomi Chapter, Order Of the
Eastern Star, and active mem
! Der Of the Congregational church of
this city. \ -....
The immediate family left to
mourn are the bereaved husband, DIR.
E. j. Lewis; and three sons: DR..
Claude Lewis, st. Cloud; Fred Lewis,
Sank Centre; and the noted author,
Harry Sinclair" Lewis, who at pres
emit is in England with his family; one
sister, Mrs. Nellie w. Gales, of Will
mette, ILL.,, and Gray Warner of st.
Louis, Mo.
Her kindly greeting will be missed
by young and old alike, and the en-
tire city mourns with the bereaved
family in her death, many feeling her
loss personal one.
Funeral services were held from
the family residence on Third street
this Thursday afternoon at 2:OC
o'clock, Rev. c. S. Sparkes, pastor C
the Congregational church, officiating.
Burial was made at Greenwood GEM
etery. Those attending the funeral
from out of town were: DIR. and Mrs.
c. B. Lewis, St. Cloud; Mrs. Nellie
w. Gates, Wilmette, ILL.,; Gray War
ner, St. Louis, Mo-; DR.. and Mrs. G.
R. Christie, Long Prairie, MINI.
The Minneapolis Tribune of Wed.
nesday morning carried the follow
ing very interesting account of the
life activities and death of Mrs.
Lewis:
More than 10000 club women in
Minnesota are today mourning the
death Of Mrs. E. ]. Lewis of Sank
Centre, pioneer in the state who as
sisted in the organization of the Min
nesota Federation of Women's clubs
in Minneapolis in 1906. Mrs. Lewis
had served as an officer of the Fed
GRAFTON since 1897, first as treasurer,
then vice president, and since 1910 as
custodian.
Dispatches from st. Cloud last
night told of the death of Mrs. Lewis