BRANDON — Services for James Foster Lewis have been scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, June 28, 2009, at the Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home Chapel on High Street in Jackson. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until service time. A graveside service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, June 29, 2009, at Greenlawn Cemetery in Natchez.

Mr. Lewis, a native of Pike County and a former resident of Natchez, died Thursday, June, 25, 2009, at the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.

Mr. Lewis was a graduate of Southwest Junior College in Summit; the University of Mississippi; and the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. Mr. Lewis, a World War II veteran, served his country in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the Jefferson Street United Methodist Church in Natchez and attended the First Baptist Church of Jackson, where he sang in the Sanctuary Choir. As a pharmacist, he served his community at the Gilbert’s Drug Store in Natchez and for Wal-Mart Pharmacies in the Jackson area. He enjoyed fishing, traveling, square dancing/clogging and was an avid gardener. Mr. Lewis was a member of the Metropolitan Supper Club.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Yvette Murrell Lewis; and his sister, Myrtle Lewis Barron.

Mr. Lewis is survived by his wife, Lillian W. Lewis of Brandon; three sons, Dr. Van Laney Lewis and his wife, Ruth Elizabeth Henderson Lewis, of Roanoke, Va., Dwight Eugene Lewis of Jackson and Neal Patrick Lewis and his wife, Andrea G. Lewis, of Vicksburg; one sister, Peggy Ann Felder of McComb; four grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Kathryn Alexander Lewis and Benjamin Foster Lewis of Roanoke and Laney Patrick Lewis, Brittney Pigg and Rebecca Pigg of Vicksburg.

The family prefers memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Jackson Sanctuary Choir Fund.

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