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Lee Michael LEWIS

Male 1939 - 1944  (4 years)


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  • Name Lee Michael LEWIS 
    Birth 14 Mar 1939  OK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Name Lee Michael "Whizzer" LEWIS 
    Death 12 Feb 1944  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Encephalitis 
    Burial 14 Feb 1944  Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Carter County, OK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • (1) Article from unknown newspaper, date unknown:

      Young 'Whizzer' Is Going Home After Long Year in Hospital

      After a year in the hospital, "Whizzer" is going home.

      "Whizzer" is 4-year-old Lee Michael Lewis, as bright, clever and pert a child as you could ever see. But for a year he has suffered sleeping sickness and in January it looked as if it might be the end for "Whizzer."

      He had been fed by tube for six months - and even then he couldn't keep his food down. He was kept alive by injections of glucose.

      The doctors decided to try artificial fever treatments - which had proved effective in some types of illness but have not been used for encephalitis.

      Popular With Nurses

      About a month and a half ago "Whizzer" started getting better. He has become the pet of the hospital and the favorite beau of most of the nurses.

      When the photographer went to get his picture there was some difficulty about finding him. A little sleuthing revealed that a group of nurses had taken him to the corner drug-store for ice cream.

      When he was told to eat his ice cream for the cameraman, he replied he'd rather have his termperature taken.

      His Ears Are His Eyes

      After the picture was snapped he was asked what that sound and flash was. Whizzer guessed a cigar or cigaret. He's blind, you see, and whether his eye-sight can be restored remains a big question.

      But his hearing is acute and he can distinguish between a truck, ambulance or car passing in the street, just by the sound of the motor.

      "Whizzer" is a bright child. And now he's going home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Michael Lewis, 728 Northeast Fifteenth Street.

      (2) Oklahoma City Times, Oklahoma City, OK, date unknown:

      Whizzer Gets a Break, But Not a Good One

      "Whizzer" is home again, and this time he intends to stay there awhile. Released last Friday from Wesley hospital after a year's bout with sleeping sickness, "Whizzer" was enchanted with the new toys he found at home waiting for him.

      On the day after he got home, he reached too far toward a table on which the toys were lying beside his bed. The table slipped and "Whizzer" fell, breaking his leg in a simple fracture above the knee.

      "Whizzer" went back to the hospital, where he's a favorite with the nurses. After a two-day bout with X-rays and the placing of a cast up to his waist he was allowed to return to his home at 728 Northeast Fifteenth street where he lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Lewis.

      Now, wearing his long cast, he is wheeled into the sunshine each day wearing dark glasses. For the four-year-old boy was blind after his year's illness and the sensitivity of his eyes to light has not been determined.

      After three weeks the cast probably can be removed, Mrs. Lewis said. Meanwhile "Whizzer" is being given an extra calcium diet to give strength to his bones.

      One of these days he intends to get out of that cast and that wheel chair.

      (3) Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK, February 13, 1944, p. 12:

      MICHAEL LEE LEWIS [sic; his name was Lee Michael LEWIS]

      Michael Lee Lewis [sic], 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Lewis, 728 NE 15, died Saturday [February 12, 1944] at University hospital. Rites will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the Street and Draper funeral home. Burial will be in Ardmore.

      (4) www.findagrave.com:

      Lee Michael Lewis
      Birth: Mar. 14, 1939
      Death: Feb. 12, 1944

      Family links: Parents: Leslie Onee Lewis (1904 - 1966) [sic; the decedent's parents were Harold Michael LEWIS and Wilma Juanita STARNS].

      Inscription: Grandson

      Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, USA

      Created by: Teresa Jarosek Elmore
      Record added: Jul 18, 2007
      Find A Grave Memorial# 20504836
    Person ID I2738  Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2024 

    Father Dr. Harold Michael LEWIS,   b. 11 Nov 1905, Granite, Greer County, OK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1978, Saint Johns County, FL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Wilma Juanita STARNS,   b. 17 Jan 1907, Hobart, Kiowa County, OK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Sep 1980, Oklahoma Memorial Hospital [now University Hospital], Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1928  Probably OK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Divorce Abt 28 Apr 1945  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • (1) The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK, April 28, 1945, p. 11:

      News From the Public Records . . .

      DIVORCE DECREES . . .

      Wilma from H. Michael Lewis
    Family ID F1884  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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