She played a pivotal role in the civil rights legend’s move into a political career and forged her own career as an educator.Funeral arrangements have been made for Lillian Miles Lewis, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, his office announced Wednesday.Services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta.Flowers may be sent to Willie A. Watkins Funeral Home, 1003 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd.
I was looking at John-Miles Lewis talking about his daddy. We were in.” As a student at Fisk University, John Lewis organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. After that day, flowers should be sent to Ebenezer Baptist Church. Lillian Miles Lewis, U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ wife, friend and political adviser, died Monday at Emory University Hospital. John-Miles Lewis once said that his dad often stressed the importance of the past to him.“He always tried to instill in me what the past really meant and how much the past affects now,” he told The Washington Post.John Lewis told The Washington Post that he supported his son’s career as long as he was “helping sensitize and educate his generation.”Here’s what you need to know about his son, John-Miles Lewis.Clinton said: “It’s amazing how quickly time passes.
She wanted him to do his work.”Lewis continued her own career while her husband was a political activist. Her father Miles Cahn and mother Lillian co-founded the company Coach, Inc.
Her cause of death was a long illness that was never publicly discussed. John and Lillian adopted John Miles in 1976 when he was just two … Lillian Miles and John Lewis were married for 44-years before her death.
Funeral arrangements have been made for Lillian Miles Lewis, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, his office announced Wednesday. She was 73. Lillian Miles Lewis, the “devoted wife” of Congressman John Lewis, D-Atlanta, has died, the civil rights icon’s office said today in a statement. John and Lillian Lewis met at a New Year's Eve party, in 1967. Her funeral was at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
SNCC was largely responsible for organizing student activism in the Movement, including sit-ins and other activities.Lillian Lewis later directed Atlanta University’s Institute for International Affairs and Development and served as the manager of external affairs after the school merged with Clark College, becoming Clark Atlanta University.According to Lewis’ memoir “Walking With the Wind” Lillian was outgoing, involved, intelligent and great in front of an audience – she could make a speech. … Lillian and John and John-Miles and I were standing up there getting our picture taken. Lillian Miles Lewis, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, died Monday morning in Atlanta, his office announced. She had a bachelor’s in social studies and an English minor from California State College at Los Angeles. In fact, Lewis had never wanted her illness to take the focus away from her husband’s work and activism.John Lewis, the iconic civil rights activist, died on July 17, 2020, at the age of 80 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019. Funeral arrangements have been made for Lillian Miles Lewis, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, his office announced Wednesday. —Staff writer Michelle E. Shaw contributed to this report.Written condolences can be sent to Rep. Lewis and his son, John Miles Lewis, at 2015 Wallace Road, Atlanta.The Lewises had been married 44 years.
They shared one son.
SW, Atlanta, until Sunday. It is an American luxury fashion company founded in 1961 according to The New York Times. Mixing up celebrities and politics with a twistLillian’s husband was born February 21, 1940. She had a master’s in library sciences from the University of Southern California.
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He had already lost his wife, Lillian Miles Lewis, in 2012. Spokeswoman Brenda Jones said John Lewis is returning to Atlanta from Washington, D.C..
There are 20+ professionals named "Lillian Miles", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. They met at a 1967 New Year’s Eve party. According to Atlanta Magazine, the couple adopted son, John Miles Lewis.
Close friend Xernona Clayton said Lillian Lewis had been ill for an extended period of time but encouraged her husband to continue with his career.