SAINT CLEMENT OF ROME EPISCOPAL CHURCH
1501 32nd Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144  |  206-324-3072  |  www.StClementSeattle.org

The Celebration of the Life of

Berna Kathleen Fleming Lewis
(January 3, 1917 – October 18, 2012)

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 2pm

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Please turn off all electronic paging devices and cell phones and observe silence before the start of the liturgy.

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Berna Kathleen Fleming Lewis was born in Pepin Wi. Jan. 3, 1917 the 6th of 10 to hard working folks. She was a happy kid who thought of herself as a tomboy. She loved to swim, collect clams, and skate on the Mississippi river. She attended school in a one room school house and for many years attended their reunions.

Her life was greatly impacted by the depression and an opportunity came to work as a nanny to help the family. She loved caring from the children but the situation took her far from home to NYC. There she attended 11th grade. She had a chance to explore the City and made a few good friends. In NYC she manifested characteristic of flexibility and willing to try new things which she continued throughout her life.

After she returned to Pepin and finished high school she moved to Madison to attend UW nursing program. She enjoyed dorm life and as a student worked many hours in the hospital. While there she started dating George Lewis also from Pepin and an engineering student. After her graduation they married, bought a fixer house and started a family. As a result of her generous giving nature they had a house full with extended family. Always community minded she cared for neighbors using her nursing skills. She loved to socialize and had a group of friends that met regularly at each other homes for coffee. Very active in the Methodist Church she loved singing in the choir, participating in Women’s Circle and teaching Sunday school. She was such a trooper that she adeptly packed up the grub box, prepared the camper and on weekends went off with the family camping. Our frequent trips to Devils Lake allowed swimming, hiking and socializing with fellow campers. In later year George and Berna often camped and fished at Rainey Lake in Ontario. Berna was happiest when joined by friends and family on their fishing adventures. When it came time for her kids to go to college the family moved to the university side of town and by then she was again working as a nurse at the University Hospital.

When it came time to retire George and Berna decided to resettle in North Carolina close to son Mark. On 5 acres she enjoyed the out of doors, made fast friends with neighbors. Again she was very active both in Bethel Methodist Church singing in the choir and Homemakers Group with the County Extension. She loved her friends and always celebrated her children’s birthdays, holidays and anniversaries. In Midland she also helped in a second grade tutoring students. Last week a card came from the teacher who loved having her light spirit in the classroom working with the children. The pattern of retirement was to be in Midland for the winter but each summer to go on long trips visiting her children and grandchildren who were scattered across the US. During these years their trips often included their siblings.

After George died in 2005 she lived alone a new experience for her until she wanted more company. She moved to Seattle and settled in easily to an apartment in her daughter Jill’s new home. Here in Seattle she found Saint Clemons and loved the warm welcome of that community. She also regularly went to the Central Area Senior Center where she found a friends group to lunch with, classes to challenge her intellect, memoirs class, children classes to assist in and musical group where she learned to play her ukulele. She also joined a group going to theater, taking class at the art museum and other social activities.

Berna died Oct. 18 2012 at 95 years of age. She was preceded by her husband George Lewis after 65 years of marriage. Berna is survived by her sister Donna Mugridge (John), brother Shirley Fleming, brother-in–law Richard Lewis, her children Loren Lewis (Sylvia Muth), Joan Lossing (Jim), Mark Lewis (Marcia), Jill Lewis, Gregg Lewis (Nita), 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. She asked us to tell you “Thank you all for coming. Please celebrate my life not my death; I have been very lucky. I love all my family members and my dear friends.”

Prelude

Opening Anthem

standing

BCP 491

The Collect of the Day
Celebrant: People: Celebrant:	The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us pray.

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

Psalm 23	Peter Hallock (b.1924)
*The ANTIPHON is first sung by the cantor and then repeated with the congregation.

ANTIPHON

Choir: The lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me beside still waters. ALL REPEAT THE ANTIPHON Choir: He revives my soul and guides me along right pathways for his Name's sake. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. ALL REPEAT THE ANTIPHON Choir: You spread a table before me in the presence of those who trouble me; you have anointed my head with oil, and my cup is running over. Surely your goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the lord for ever. ALL REPEAT THE ANTIPHON

Alleluia	standing; sung by all	Plainsong
*The REFRAIN is first sung by the cantor and then repeated with the congregation. Cantor sings a verse and the congregation repeats the REFRAIN.

REFRAIN
The Holy Gospel	John 11:21-27

The Apostles’ Creed

standing; said by all

BCP 358

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

A reading

read by Kedrick Lewis

THE LITURGY OF THE TABLE
Anthem 181	seated, sung by all	LEVAS II

Amazing Grace

Please stand as the bread, wine and collection of alms are presented.
The Great Thanksgiving	standing	BCP 361
The Lord be with you. And also with you Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give God thanks and praise.

Eucharistic Prayer A continues…	BCP 361
…Therefore we proclaim the mystery of faith:

The Breaking of the Bread

Celebrant: People:

Alleluia. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia.