Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, September 14, 1983
Rev. Lewis "Lew" Dewey
Services for Rev. Lewis "Lew" Dewey, 97, of Caldwell, who died Friday, Sept. 9, 1983, in a Caldwell hospital, were conducted today in the Payette Church of the Nazarene, with Rev. James Cummingham officiating. Interment followed in the Riverside Cemetery in Payette, under the direction of the Shaffer-Jensen Chapel, Payette.
Rev. Dewey was born on Oct. 12, 1885, in Liberty, Neb., a son of William and Susan Dewey. He was reared and educated in Nebraska. He married Addie Terrell on Oct. 16, 1907, at Trenton, Neb. They homesteaded in Colorado and had made their home in Nebraska and Wyoming before moving to Payette, in 1935. During World War II, he worked in the Swan Island Shipyards in Portland, Ore. The couple moved to Caldwell in 1962. She died in May of 1968. He then married Maude Breen on Feb. 22, 1970, at Nampa. They made their home in Caldwell. Rev. Dewey had been a Non-Denominational minister for 75 years.
He is survived by his wife, Maude of Caldwell; six sons, Orville Dewey of Payette, Jesse Dewey of Ione, Wash., Roland Dewey of Grangeville, LeRoy Dewey of Wilder, Clifford Dewey of Caldwell and Kenneth Dewey of Nashville, Tenn.; four daughters, Winona Gerber of Lava Hot springs, Ada Carroll of Cascade Locks, Ore., Peggy Brown of La Marque, Texas, and Mary Hursh of Caldwell; eight stepsons, Bill Breen of Toledo, Ore., Bob Breen of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., Robert and Frank Breen of Westminster, Colo., and Dennis Breen of Fort Worth, Texas; a stepdaughter, Dolly Koctecky of Cucamonga; and numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a daughter, several grandchildren and a step-daughter.