Doris Eloise Lewis was born on April 11, 1922, in Amory Mississippi. As a child, Eloise enjoyed the serenity of small town life with her parents, five sisters, and two brothers. Her little town was hit hard by the Great Depression. But despite the many challenges her family endured, Eloise talked about how happy they were - especially during dinner - when they often enjoyed her mother’s homemade biscuits with brown gravy. When Eloise turned nineteen, she moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where she lived with her sister, Lucille, her brother-in-law, and their young son, Larry. When she came home from her federal government job, Eloise often played with Larry and took him for long walks in his stroller. One afternoon, Eloise took her nephew to a local soda fountain for a dish of vanilla ice cream. That’s where Eloise met her soon-to-be husband, John Edwin Lewis Jr. The two were married in 1942, in the living room of John’s mother’s house. When her husband, a Marine, shipped out to the Pacific, Eloise and her sister-in-law moved into her mother-in-law’s home. The three ladies maintained a large garden, pruning, picking and canning a variety of fruits and vegetables. Shortly after returning from the war, Eloise and John moved to Pennsylvania, where their son, John Edwin Lewis III, was born. Much later in her life, she became a grandmother to Jonathan Kohnen and a great grandmother to John Lewis Kohnen and Samuel Lewis Kohnen. Eloise loved to crochet, and to entertain at her home in Silver Spring and also at the family beach house located in Breezy Point Beach, Maryland. She especially enjoyed hosting large, Fourth of July Celebrations at the beach house, even riding her decorated bike in the town’s annual parade.
Interment will be at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, followed by a fellowship luncheon at the church.
The family wishes to thank everyone for their support and prayers. Memorial contributions may be made to SmileTrain, https://my.smiletrain.org/donation/donate/givenow
