Lewis, W. Earl
Person
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Memorial Ministry for Indigent Persons records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Memorial Ministry
Abstract
Clippings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and programs of an organization started in 1984 by W. Earl Lewis, a Roman Catholic layperson, to establish an annual interfaith memorial service for those who died poor and alone. Records document Lewis' struggle for support prior to the first service in 1986, and contain information about 1995 heat-related deaths, pauper burials at Homewood Memorial Gardens, and mass burials at the former site of the Dunning State Mental Hospital and poor...
Dates:
1984-1997