Iris Phillips Lewis
Iris Phillips Lewis, 99, of Burnet, died Nov. 25, 2010, at the Oaks Nursing Center surrounded by family and friends.
She was born to Ealy D. and Willie (Crane) Phillips Dec. 5, 1910, in Spicewood.
She attended school in Spicewood and graduated salutatorian from Marble Falls High School in 1928. She attended Carter Business College in San Angelo and was later employed by an insurance company in San Angelo and Houston.
She married her longtime high school sweetheart Weldon “A.W.” Lewis in 1930. They had a long, happy and devoted life together for 73 years.
After living in San Antonio, Mathis, Falfurrias, Stephenville and Spicewood, they moved to Burnet in 1954.
She was a member of the Vanderveer Street Church of Christ and was a faithful Christian and Bible class teacher for more than 70 years. She also was a member of the Burnet Home Demonstration Club.
She enjoyed many years of travel with her husband and she loved entertaining people in her home. She enjoyed life to the fullest, her motto being “live long, love much, laugh often.”
Survivors include son Weldon F. Lewis and wife Joyce of Fulshear; grandchildren Mary Beth Carter and husband Roy Lee of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Jack Lewis and wife Julie of Chicago; great-grandchildren Price Carter, Blythe Carter and Nathaniel Weldon Lewis; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; brother M.R. Phillips; and sisters Ima Lee Kuykendall and Nella Mae Dodgen.
The family thanks Oaks Nursing Center, where she made her home for the past five years.
A funeral service is 1 p.m. Nov. 30 at Edgar Funeral Home, 109 N. Main St. in Burnet, (512) 756-4444, with Jerry Don Sanders and Bill Phillips officiating.
Interment follows at the Smithwick Cemetery.