Isle of Wight-Nansemond-Rockingham County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ewing, D. Weldon, 1959 

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Ewing Rites Conducted At Main Street Church 

  Funeral services for David Weldon Ewing, who died Wednesday, were conducted 
Friday at 3:30 p.m. at Main Street Methodist Church by the Rev. George S. 
Lightner, pastor.  Burial was in St. Luke's Memorial Cemetery, Benns Church. 

  The casket was covered with a pall of Calla lilies and red carnations. 

  Pallbearers were L.S. Burton, T.H. Birdsong, Jr., Elmo Holloway, Edgar 
Speight, Jep S. Morgan, Thomas L. Woodward, H.M. Haynes and J.M. Cross. 
Honorary pallbearers were members of the official board of Main Street 
Methodist Church. 

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D. W. Ewing, 66, Buried May 15 In St. Luke's Cemty. 

  David Weldon Ewing, 66, 908 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suffolk insurance man and 
city Republican leader, died Wedhesday, May 20, at 8 P.M. at the Louise Obici 
Memorial Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. 

  He was a son of the late Rev. Wesley O. Ewing [sic*] and Mrs. Laura Hott 
Ewing of Frederick County. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ada Gilliam Ewing, of Suffolk; one 
daughter, Mrs. Emalee Ewing Philpott, of Duncan, Arizona; one brother, Joseph 
O. Ewing, of Newport News; one sister, Mrs. Catherine Terovolas of Washington, 
D. C.; one niece and one nephew. 

  He had lived in Suffolk since 1939. 

  He was a member of Main St. Methodist Church, the official Board of the 
church, and superintendent of the adult division of the church school.  He was 
a member of Hiram Lodge No. 340 A.F. & A.M., and a member of Smithfield Lodge 
No. 239, International Order of Odd Fellows. 

  In 1953, he was appointed by Judge John K. Hutton to membership of the 
Suffolk Electoral Board, an appointment he held until his deatih. 

  He served as chairman of the Suffolk Republican Committee from 1940 until 
1953.  He resigned from the committee when he was appointed to the electoral 
board. 

  He was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1948. 

  From 1933 to 1939 he was associated with the Home Beneficial Life Insurance 
Co.  From 1939 to 1957, when he retired, he was associated with the Union Life 
Insurance Co. 

  Since 1958 he served as a host for Historic St. Luke's Restoration near 
Smithfield. 

  Funeral services were conducted at Main Street Methodist Church Friday at 
3:30 P.M. by the Rev. George S. Lightner, pastor.  Burial was in St. Luke's 
Memorial Cemetery, Benns Church. 

  The body was taken from the R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home to the church one 
hour before the services. 


David Weldon EWING, of Suffolk, retired insurance man, Republican leader, 
b. 23 Jun 1892, Singers Glen, Rockingham Co., d. 20 May 1959, Suffolk, 
interred in St. Luke's Memorial Park*, Benns Church, 22 May 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 122, Sun., May 24, 1959, p. 9; 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 40, No. 22, Thurs., May 28, 1959, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #18: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #27832705. 

D.Cert. 13113 (Chuckatuck #137) gives buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. 

His father, Rev. John William Otterbein EWING (1866 - 1898), is buried with 
   his father in Friendship Chapel Cemetery, Stephens City, Frederick Co. 

His mother, Laura Isola (HOTT EWING; Mrs. Charles Peter) BAILEY (1867 - 1952), 
   is buried with her parents & second husband in Old Stone Church Cemetery, 
   Green Spring, Frederick Co. 


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