Lewis Ames ’34

Lew Ames, it has just been learned, died Nov. 1, 1997. Not long before that, his wife, Gary McKenzie Ames, notified the class, "It is very sad. Lew has Alzheimer's. He still can do his crossword puzzle and loves going out for dinner..."

After spending most of his working years in the financial end of IBM, Lew took early retirement in the late 1960s. The Ameses tried living in St. Croix and Hawaii, but they wound up, in 1972, in Florida, "with fine doctors and medical facilities readily available," in Lew's words. At the time of his death, his address was in Naples.

Surviving, besides his wife, are a son, Robert L., two daughters, Anne Heimbach and Suzanne Remley, and five grandchildren. A second son, Stephen, died in 1972.

The Class of 1934