Obituary of Cathie Deason Lewis

Services for Cathie Deason Lewis will be at 10:00 am, Saturday, April 30, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home Chapel, Overton with Reverend Byron Allen officiating. A private burial for family members will be held at Lakewood Memorial Park Cemetery in Henderson. Cathie Deason Lewis passed away Sunday, April 10, 2011, in Bradenton, FL where she resided the past 11 years.  She was born May 28, 1924 in Jonesboro, Arkansas to the late Milford and Cathie Stovall Burress and was the secretary for the New London High School Principal for nineteen years and for the Leverett's Chapel High School Superintendent for eight years. She is survived by a son, Emory Deason Jr. and wife Tudi of Montgomery, AL; a daughter Lynell Nash of Bradenton, FL; and a step son Randy Lewis and wife Tina of Odessa, TX as well as four grandchildren; five great grandchildren; seven step grandchildren; and five step great grandchildren.  Honorary pallbearers will be Billy Vernon, Ed Roberson, F. T. Williams, William Villard, Don Marley and Jimmy Evans.  The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 9:00 am to 10:00 am Saturday, April 30. Following the memorial service, a gathering of family and friends will be held at Forest Home Baptist Church, 15746 County Road 173 in Kilgore. The family asks in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Leverett's Chapel Alumni Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 356, Laird Hill, TX 75666; or the London Ex Students Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 177, New London, TX 75682, in memory of Cathie Deason Lewis.