Louise S. Lewis

Published 6:27 pm Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Louise S. Lewis, 101, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020.

A funeral service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will take place following the service at the Shackleford family cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday evening from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Wilkerson Funeral Home.

Louise Shackelford Lewis was born in Wilson to Amanda Dildy Shackelford and Richard Washington Shackelford, who died six months prior to her birth. Lewis taught school in Walstonburg, Snow Hill, Hookerton, LaGrange, Johnston County, Cherryville and Washington.

After teaching more than 30 years, she and her husband retired to Pop City, where they continued to manage farm and forestry operations. Lewis was a graduate of East Carolina Teachers College and Atlantic Christian College. Lewis was an outstanding athlete at East Carolina Teacher’s College, a teacher, homemaker, artist, cook and seamstress. She remained active in the Saratoga Christian Church and numerous benevolent activities in eastern North Carolina.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 73 years, Jasper Lee Lewis.

She is survived by their two children, Dr. Carolyn L. Sweet and Dr. Jasper L. Lewis Jr., three grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren

Memorials may be made to Saratoga Christian Church, 6802 Church St., P.O. Box 181, Saratoga, NC 27873.

Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home and Crematory.

Online condolences at www.WilkersonFuneralHome.com