Lewis Family February 2014

Lewis Family  

This  quilt is for the Lewis family.  Tami (wife, mother)  was diagnosed with cancer recently and passed away leaving her husband and 5 boys. Tami Lewis (1969 - 2014)

Tamara (Tami) Machelle Lewis, 44, died March 3, 3:00 AM, 2014 at Sanford Hospital, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Tami went home to the Lord with the love and presence of her husband and family by her side. 

Tami was born to Wendell and Dieanna Powell July 3, 1969 in Akron, Iowa. Tami grew up on a farm near Egan, South Dakota. She attended college at SDSU and USD. While working at Sioux Valley Hospital she met her husband Jay. They married September 28, 1996 at Hope Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls. They built their lives together while living in Sioux Falls, and recently on an acreage north of Sioux Falls. Tami shared great joy in homeschooling her children, mothering them and being a devoted wife. Tami loved to read, sit in the sun and spend time with her family. 
Tami is survived by her husband, Jay Lewis, their five sons Jonah, Simon, Caden, Sam and Ezra, her parents Wendell and Dieanna  Powell, brother Travis and his wife Briana, Jay's parents Wesley and Diann Lewis, and Jay's siblings, spouses and nieces and nephews - Kim and Cheryl Lewis, Robert and Tina Buri, Loren and Pam Rowland.