Obit:       Lewis D. Banning Sr., Obituary,  March 25, 2003

Source:  Journal Inquirer
             Manchester,CT (issue March 28, 2003)

Submitter:   ABishop, April 2003

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BANNING

Lewis D. Banning Sr. of Manchester, died Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at Manchester 
Memorial Hospital. He was the husband of 57 years of Evelyn (Wutsch) Banning. 

Born in Hartford, son of the late Clinton and Hilda (Vujs) Banning, he was 
raised in Glastonbury and had resided in Manchester for over 51 years. He was 
a Navy veteran of WWII and was awarded the Silver Star. Mr. Banning had worked 
for the Manchester Public School system for many years and retired from the 
communications dept. of St. Francis Hospital. He had been an adult leader for 
the Boy Scouts of America in Troops 27 and 3 in Manchester. He was a member of 
the Manchester Church of the Nazarene and was active at the Windsor Hill 
Nazarene Family Camp & Retreat Center in Hillsboro, NH.

Besides his wife, he leaves his son, Lewis Banning Jr. and his wife, Rosalyn, 
of Southington; his daughters, Susan Baron of Greensboro, NC, Diane Bliss and 
her husband, Paul, of Glastonbury, and Jane Bernier and her husband, Clifford, 
of Brooklyn; and his daughter-in-law, Lori Banning-Smith and her husband, 
Stoner Smith, of Ellington. He also leaves his grandchildren, Lewis D. Banning III, 
Andrew and Stacey Baron, Tyler, and Amanda Bliss, Pamela and Valerie Banning, 
and Jaime and Thomas Acquavella; his sister, Frances Ellsworth of Portland, CT; 
and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his son Timothy.

A service of memory will be held in the Manchester Church of the Nazarene, 
218 Main St., Manchester, Saturday, March 29, at 11 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Church of the 
Nazarene, or to Windsor Hills Nazarene Family Camp & Retreat Center, RR2, 
Box 157, Hillsboro, NH 03244.

Samsel & Carmon Funeral Home, South Windsor has care of the arrangements.

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