Stevens Point Daily Journal, Stevens Point, Portage Co., WI, Tuesday, December 5, 1935

Donald Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lewis, 505 Michigan avenue, was born at New Liepsic, South Dakota, May 18, 1920. He lived for a time at Waupaca, and in 1925 he moved to this city. He joined Troop 21 and become a tenderfoot scout on October 18, 1932. He was raised to the rank of first class December 8, 1933, star rank April 6, 1935, and has now completed all requirements for eagle rank. He has served as assistant patrol leader of the Cobra patrol and at the present time is junior scoutmaster of his troop. In addition to the 13 required merit badges necessary to become an eagle scout he has qualified for first aid to animals, handicraft, firemanship, carpentry, leathercraft, woodcarving, electricity and scholarship. He is a sophomore in high school and his hobby is electricity.

Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Dane Co., WI, Friday, April 30, 1943

Evelyn Schwingel Engaged to Marry Donald R. Lewis

Announcement is made by Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Schwingel, Richland Center, of the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Evelyn Delores, to Donald R. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lewis, Stevens Point. Miss Schwingel is a graduate of Stevens Point Teachers' college and a member of Omega Mu-Chi and Alpha Kappa Rho. She is the band and science instructor at Gays Mills high school. Mr. Lewis, who is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Lambda Upsilon, and was a WARF research assistant at the university. He is now employed by the Hercules Powder Co. and is ballistics supervisor at the Badger Ordnance Works.

Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Dane Co., WI, Tuesday, June 22, 1943

SCHWINGEL - LEWIS

In a ceremony Monday at high noon at the Presbyterian manse in Richland Center, Miss Evelyn D. Schwingel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Schwingel, Richland Center, became the bride of Donald R. Lewis, Baraboo, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lewis of Stevens Point. The Rev. R. E. Dreger read the service in the presence of the immediate families. The bride wore a dress of white Irish crochet trimmed with love-knot ornaments. Her head-dress was a white handmade fascinator draped over her hair and around her shoulders in cowl fashion. A large lavender orchid centered her bouquet of white rosebuds and heliotrope. After a wedding luncheon, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis left for Baraboo, where they will make their home. The bride, a graduate of Central State Teachers' college at Stevens Point, has been band and music instructor at Gays Mills and Endeavor. Mr. Lewis, a University of Wisconsin graduate, is a supervisor at the Hercules Powder plant.

The Capital Times, Madison, Dane Co., WI, Wednesday, June 6, 1969

The Lewis-McPeek Engagement Told

THE ENGAGEMENT of Miss Donna Diane Lewis, 413 N. Paterson St., to John Spencer McPeek, 317 N. Brooks St., is announced by her parents, Dr. and Mrs. D. R. Lewis, Houston, Tex. Mr. McPeek is the son of Prof. and Mrs. G. S. McPeek, Ann Arbor, Mich., who formerly lived at 107 Roby Rd., when Prof. McPeek was a member of the University of Wisconsin faculty. The wedding will take place Dec. 20 in the Unitarian Church. Miss Lewis received her B. A. degree in speech correction at the University of Wisconsin, where she is a graduate student in special education. Her fiancé, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, is a graduate student in philosophy at the University.

Southern Texas Archeological Association, Texas

How does one write about a person she has known for a lifetime? That lifetime is 55 years, and seldom a dull moment. Don Lewis was a brilliant scientist, an interesting husband and friend, and a sensitive father to two great kids. Every day we laid new ground for the "battle of the wits" and most days I was outwitted!

From the day Don "retired" (and I use that word loosely) from Shell Development Company he anticipated every day with his students and class preparations. Those retirement activities enjoyed by most retirees, such as travel and hobbies, had to be considered as a sentence for Don. When it was convenient between semesters we would enjoy a cruise or cross-country drive.

Don loved to read and collect books of all scientific categories. You will soon find that vast collection in the UTSA Library. Not only did he read everything that he could get his hands on in the fields of chemistry, but he enjoyed letting his imagination run rampant as he designed instruments for measuring and identifying archaeological mysteries of stains, minerals and rock types. Through mass spectrometry and thermoluminescence dating he was credited with making the archaeologist's work somewhat simpler.

Suffice it to say that Don will be missed by all who knew him, especially his family.

Evelyn Lewis

Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Dane Co., WI, December 2, 2007

McPeek, Mary Liming

Mary Liming McPeek, 97, a resident of Hebron Hall at Oakwood Village, died Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007, after a long illness. Born in 1909, in a house built by her father, she graduated from high school in 1925, at age 16. Always an avid student, she continued at Wilmington College, where she gained a lifelong appreciation of the Quaker point of view and later at Ohio State University, earning her master's in music education. There she met her future husband, the promising music student, Gwynn "Mac" McPeek. During their long courtship both finished their degrees and Mary continued to teach music in Ohio elementary schools. Once the couple married in 1937, they embarked on a series of moves around the world to further Mac's education and career as a professor of musicology. They made lifelong friends during their stays all over the Southeast, the Upper Midwest, western Europe and England and Mary kept up a treasured correspondence with them all. Aside from helping Mac with his researches, transcribing music, teaching piano, singing professionally in choirs and as a soloist, doing beautiful needlework and helping to raise their two children, Mary taught herself to make bobbin lace in France and later translated her first instruction book into English for publication. She became a renowned teacher of bobbin lace and was known throughout this country and in Europe for her delicate geometric designs and clear patterns and instructions. Longtime Art-Fair-on-the-Square-goers may remember her on the Capitol steps in the mid-to-late 1960s demonstrating bobbin lace with her then-teenaged daughter. Art-lovers have prized the post office's lace stamp of the early 1980s: a block of four handkerchief corners on blue backgrounds. This stamp was the culmination of more than 10 years of effort on her part as well as the committee she inspired: not only did she design one of the corners, but she advocated tirelessly for the stamp and the other three corners were designed and made by her former students and colleagues. She considered this stamp to be one of her life's main achievements. Born the fifth of seven children, she was predeceased by them all; only a sister-in-law and two of Mac's much-younger sisters remain. After Mac's death in 2002, she was painfully aware of "being the only one left." Mary is survived by her children, John McPeek (Sharon Pearl) of Virginia and Mary Ann Fraley of Madison; four grandchildren, Julia McPeek-Campbell (David Campbell) of Georgia and Scotland, Michael McPeek of Indiana, Emilie (Ross) Larson of Appleton and Christina (Joseph) Burzinski of Madison; and a former daughter-in-law, Donna McPeek of Texas. A memorial service will be held at ST. DUNSTAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 6201 University Ave., on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007, at 10 a.m. Her ashes will be interred next summer in the family cemetery in southern Ohio, where ancestors have been buried since the early 1840s. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to any of the following: Great Lakes Lace Group, care of Kathleen Campbell, 207 Wilson St., Ypsilanti, MI 48197-4505; dementia research, Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, neuro-dementiatrials@med.umich.edu or NYU Silberstein Aging and Dementia Research Center, New York University School of Medicine, 550 1st Ave., Room THN314, New York, NY 10016; Macular Degeneration Research Fund (www.eyesight.org/Memorials/memorials.html) or the charity of one's choice. Mary always hated the way cut flowers wilted so quickly. Cress Funeral and Cremation Service 6021 University Ave. (608) 238-8406

San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX, March 23, 2008

Evelyn D. Lewis, 89, passed away March 20, 2008. She was born in Richland Center, WI, in 1918. She graduated from Central State Teacher's College in Stevens Point, WI, in biology and music. She sang, played piano, tympani & marimba. She taught biology, sang in the Houston Chorale, & participated in productions of the Alley Theatre in Houston. She was a charter member of the Houston Archaeological Society & active member of Texas Archaeology Society. Survivors include daughter, Donna Lewis McPeek; son, Jeff Lewis (Joyce). Grandchildren include Scott Lewis (Alejandra) with great-grand son, Matthew Lewis; Melissa Lewis Huegerich (Scott Huegerich); Julia McPeek Campbell (David Campbell); Michael Lewis-Spencer McPeek. Ex-son-in-law is John S. McPeek. Funeral will be Monday, March 24, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. at Mission Burial Park North, San Antonio, TX. In lieu of flowers please make donations to Alzheimer's research. Mission Park Funeral Chapels North.