Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Hepsey Scott Lewis
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   LEWIS
   Hepsey Scott LEWIS was born November 6, 1902, in McIntosh County. She
   died May 15, 1987, at Community Hospital, Lakeview. Wake services and
   funeral services were held at West Eufaula Indian Baptist Church,
   where she was a member. Services were conducted by Rev. Dan PHILLIPS,
   Jr., and Archie THOMAS. Pallbearers were Amos HARJO, Taylor FIELDS,
   Tom PICKERING, Robert GRAYSON, Jr., James CHARLES, Rudy JOHNSON, Frank
   KAMP, and Turner BEAR, Jr. Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery in
   Eufaula.
   She was a foster grandparent in the Creek Nation Boarding School.
   She was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Coleman LEWIS, who died
   in  1964; two sons, Johnson LEWIS and Coleman LEWIS II; a daughter,
   Rosalie LEWIS; three brothers, Bennie SCOTT, John SCOTT, and Daniel
   SCOTT; a half brother, Homer GRAY; and a grandson, Jerome Richard
   TIGER, a famous Creek artist who died in 1967. Z
   Survivors include a daughter, Lucinda TIGER of Muskogee; four
   grandchildren, Johnny TIGER, Jr., and Rita Tiger STROBLE, both of
   Muskogee, Kenneth TIGER of Eufaula, and Marcy TIGER, who is with the
   U. S. Army in Germany; 15 great grandchildren and numerous nieces and
   nephews.