Obituary of Ruth (Everest) Lewis, 2002; Baker Co., OR
Surnames: Lewis, Everest, Bourland, Douglas

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Ruth Lewis 

Ruth Everest Lewis, 90, of Roseburg, a former Baker City resident, died Feb.
2, 2002, at a private home in Roseburg. 

Her private family graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Morris
Hills Cemetery at Boise under the direction of Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel. 

Ruth Everest Lewis was born in 1911 at White Bird, Idaho. She was the first of
the five children born to Ethel Bourland Everest and George A. Everest. The
family soon moved to Grangeville, Idaho.  

Ruth was educated in the Grangeville, Idaho, and Brownsville, N.Y., schools
and then entered Blair Business College at Spokane, Wash. Her career as a
legal secretary included work in county offices of Idaho County at
Grangeville, state offices in Boise and federal offices in Washington, D.C.,
and in offices of corporations in Portland. 

After her marriage on Sept. 29, 1945, to William F. "Bill" Lewis, an art
education instructor in the Baker schools, Ruth worked for the school
superintendent and also for an appraisal engineer. 

Ruth and Bill loved to explore the West. During Bill's summer vacations they
took their young sons on car trips all over the Northwest, California,
Montana, Canada and traveled by train to Texas. Throughout the years, Ruth was
a constant champion of her younger brothers and sisters. She helped them
through college and gave them encouragement and support in their lives. 

On her husband's retirement, they moved to Boise where Ruth Lewis became a
scholar in genealogical research. She established her membership in the
Society of the Mayflower Descendants (serving as governor of the Idaho Society
from 1982 through 1984), the Daughters of the American Revolution and
theColonial Dames. 

As a member of boards of these various organizations, Ruth developed an
extensive genealogy and family history of both the Everest and the Bourland
families, much treasured by her relatives. 

When Ruth's husband, William F. Lewis, died in 1991, she moved to Roseburg to
be near her son, Wendell E. Lewis. 

Survivors include two sons, Wendell and his wife, Patty, of Oakland, and
William Loren Lewis of San Francisco; two grandsons, Chris Lewis and his
wife,Kim, and Steven Lewis and his wife, Mandy; a granddaughter, Lacie; two
great-granddaughters, Ashley and Nicole; a great-grandson, Brody; a sister,
Helen E. Douglas of San Rafael, Calif., and several cousins, nieces and
nephews. 

She was preceded in death by a sister and two brothers. 

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to
the American Cancer Society for Breast Cancer Research. 

Roseburg Funeral Alternatives is assisting the family with arrangements.