TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for  LEWIS, ERNEST "BIG RED"  

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from January 3 to January 4, 2013

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LEWIS, ERNEST "BIG RED" 

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Ernest "Big Red" Lewis, 64, a native and resident of Houma, died Friday, Dec. 
28, 2012.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until funeral time Saturday at Mount Pilgrim 
Baptist Church in Gibson. Funeral services will be at noon Saturday at the 
church, with 

burial in Southdown Cemetery in Houma.

He is survived by two sons, ElRay Baker (Debra) of Houma, and Terry Baker 
(Natinda) of Las Vegas, Nev.; two stepdaughters, Shen Johnson (Keith) and 
Nicole Allen of Houma; three sisters, Helen Lewis Harris of Houma, Dorothy 
Harding (Earl) of New Orleans, and Doretha Nixon (Daniel) of New Orleans; and 
four brothers, Earl Lewis of Atlanta, Ga., Willard Lewis (Louise) of Marion, 
S.C., Sam Lewis of Houma, and Edward Lewis of Blair Glade, Fla.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Bessie Allen Lewis; his mother, Helena 
Sears Lewis; his father, Samuel Lewis Sr.; and six brothers, Robert "Bob", 
Samuel Jr., Alvin, Joseph, Samuel "Sambo" and James Lewis Sr.

Williams and Southall Funeral Home in Napoleonville is in charge of 
arrangements.

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