Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Ewen, Elizabeth Kerr      February 29, 2008
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 3/5/2008.
  Ewen, Elizabeth Kerr     
   
   
  Elizabeth Kerr Ewen HANOVER Elizabeth Kerr Ewen, 85, of Hanover, Pa., and 
  formerly of York, Pa., and Williamsburg, Va., passed peacefully on Friday, 
  February 29, 2008, at Homewood at Plum Creek. She was the loving wife of 61 
  years to Edward Coryell Ewen of Hanover. She was born June 28, 1922, in 
  Harrisburg, the daughter of the late John Kleiser and Myrtle (Koser) Krause. At 
  the age of five, she was adopted by the late Dr. James DeWitt and Catherine 
  Sarah (Krause) Kerr of Lebanon, Pa. Mrs. Ewen graduated from Lebanon Valley 
  College with a degree in music and did postgraduate work at Penn State 
  University. She was supervisor of Music in the Stewartstown public schools from 
  1944-1946. She was an active member of the Music Program at Williamsburg United 
  Methodist Church in Williamsburg, Va., and was a former member of First 
  Presbyterian Church, York, Pa. Mrs. Ewen played piano for Sunday school classes 
  and directed handbell choirs in various churches. After moving to Hanover, she 
  became a member of First United Methodist Church. In addition to her husband, 
  she is survived by her daughter, Barbara Elizabeth Jacoby and her husband 
  Michael of Seven Valleys, Pa.; son, the Rev. James Albert Ewen and his wife 
  Ellen of Sunderland, Mass.; sister-in-law, Alberta Vosburgh of Bridgewater, 
  N.J.; grandchildren, Michael Coryell Jacoby and his wife Jennifer of 
  Dallastown, Pa., Jennifer Elizabeth Smitka and her husband Joseph of 
  Chambersburg, Pa., and Christopher Wells Ewen of Syracuse, N.Y. She was 
  preceded in death by her brother, Richard Krause; stepmother, Ada (Boyer) Kerr; 
  and brotherin-law, Leonard W. Vosburgh. A memorial service will be held 
  Saturday, March 8, 2008, at 10 a.m. at Homewood of Plum Creek, 425 Westminster 
  Ave., Hanover, Pa., with the Rev. Dr. John Morgan from First Presbyterian 
  Church in York, Pa., officiating. Memorial contributions in Mrs. Ewen's memory 
  may be made to Homewood at Plum Creek, 425 Westminster Ave., Hanover, PA 17331; 
  or to Lebanon Valley College, 101 North College Ave., Annville, PA 17003. 
  Wetzel Funeral Home, 549 Carlisle Street, Hanover, Pa., is assisting the family 
  with arrangements. Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 3/5/2008.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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