LEWIS, SIDNEY WILLIAM WALTER “SID”, PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL ON JANUARY 8, 1989 AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF MRS. MARGARET ELIZABETH LEWIS AND LOVING FATHER OF A SON HAROLD AND HIS WIFE JAY, ALL OF VULCAN, AS WELL AS A BROTHER WESLEY IN ENGLAND.
SID WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FATHER SIDNEY JAMES, HIS MOTHER EVA AND AN INFANT SISTER.
SID WAS BORN AT STAINES, ENGLAND ON JUNE 8, 1910 AND CAME TO STROME, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN IN 1928 TO HOMESTEAD IN THE STETTLER AREA. HE LATER WORKED ON MANY FARMS IN THE STETTLER, CAMROSE AND SYLVAN LAKE AREAS. IN 1939, HE JOINED THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY AND SERVED AS CHIEF ENGINE ROOM ARTIFICER DURING WORLD WAR II ON THE HCMS BLAIRMORE AND THE JOHN KEVAIR. HE MET AND MARRIED MARGARET ELIZABETH MCCURRY IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND FOLLOWING THE WAR, SHE CAME TO HALIFAX IN 1946. THEY RESIDED IN TORONTO AND AREA WHILE SID WAS EMPLOYED FOR BEATTIE CADILLAC AS AN AUTOBODY AND FENDER WORKER UNTIL RETIRING AND MOVING TO VULCAN IN 1986 WHERE HE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
SID ENJOYED PEOPLE, FISHING, TRAP SHOOTING, GARDENING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND PLAYING DARTS ON A LEAGUE. HE LOVED NATURE AND A GOOD POLITICAL DISCUSSION AS HE WAS A STAUNCH PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION #21 VULCAN AND THE ALBERTA FISH AND WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION.
FUNERAL SERVICE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989 AT THE VULCAN CHURCH OF CHRIST, REV. DOUG BARRIE OFFICIATING. INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY FIELD OF HONOR.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS MAY BE MADE TO THE ALBERTA HEART AND STROKE ASSOCIATION.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.