Helen Joan Lewis, 79

McMinnville resident and Chesterfield, Ind., native Helen Joan Lewis, 79, died Sept. 13 at her home.

A homemaker and a member of Temple Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Clyde and Ethel Shafter Ashby.

She is survived by her husband, Hobert L. Lewis; son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Sue Lewis of McMinnville; daughters and sons-in-law, Lavettta and Bill Westberry of Murfreesboro, Teresa and Herschel King, Robin and Charles Rolley, Katie and Jackie Matheny, Rita and Lonnie Rogers, Linda and Jeff McGee, all of McMinnville; sisters, Louise Pickering of Anderson, Ind., Barbara Bevelhimer of Lake Okeechobee, Fla.; brother, David Ashby of Ft. Lapel, Ind.; 23 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Services were held Thursday at McMinnville Funeral Home with Jim Tollison officiating. Burial followed at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in White County. Memorials may be made to Lazarus House Hospice.

McMinnville Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Sept. 16, 2005