Honey Grove, Texas -- Funeral service for Lewis Fleming, 94, will be held 2:00 p.m. Thursday, August 27, 2020, at Cooper-Sorrells Funeral Home Chapel in Honey Grove. Officiating will be Rev. Rodney Stanford.

Serving as pallbearers will be Nick Finney, Kenneth Massey, Brian Whitenack, Alan Perkins, Mike Fleming, and Pat Perkins.

Interment will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Honey Grove. He will lie in state during business hours Wednesday August 26, 2020. Visitation will be held from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. on August 27, 2020. Lewis Malcolm Fleming passed away the morning of August 23, 2020.

He was born on August 20, 1926, the seventh of nine children born to the union of Jesse Sims Fleming and Nancy Chaffin Fleming. He attended school at Burnett, Shady Grove, and later Honey Grove.

In 1944, he was drafted in the U.S. Army and spent two years in the south Pacific where he served in Luzon, Leyte, and Mindanao. Lewis married Hazel Irene Blankenship on Dec 5, 1944. To this union was born their daughter Peggy Don Fleming, who gave them one grandson Nicholas Finney. Mr. Fleming and his wife ran businesses of various kinds for more than 55 years in Honey Grove, including the Dairy Bar, car wash, and a laundromat.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge #164 of Honey Grove and served all its major offices as well as the Grand Lodge of Texas as District Deputy Grand Master. He was also a member of the First Baptist Church of Honey Grove for 50 years where he served Treasurer for 11 years and taught a Sunday school class for 15 years.

He is survived by his daughter Peggy Finney and husband Kimo of Paris, Texas; grandson Nicholas Finney of Dallas, Texas; sister Patricia Ann Perkins of Crowley, Texas, and several nieces and nephews.

He is preceded in death by his parents, loving wife Hazel, and seven siblings: Eugene, Sims, Avery, Bert, and Morris Clifton Fleming; Maggie Dodd, and Iris Hall.

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