- Date Of Birth: September 16, 1923
- Date Of Death: February 6, 2017
- State: Florida
BARBARA SCHUMACHER LEWIS, 93, longtime resident of Miami, passed away at her home in Cutler Bay on Monday, February 6th, 2017. Born in Ansonia, Connecticut to Paul Schumacher and Lillian Mayo Schumacher, Barbara was the second of six children who lived at the top of Dwight Street. She graduated from The Hospital of St. Raphael’s Nursing program in 1948. After her marriage that same year to her childhood friend and neighbor, John “Jack” Lewis, she accompanied him to Tuck School at Dartmouth College where they lived while Jack completed his MBA. Upon returning to Ansonia, Barbara worked as a traveling nurse in the surrounding areas until they relocated to Kansas City, Missouri in 1951 and eventually settled in South Florida in 1953.
Barbara is survived by her brothers, John (Ruth) and Jarvis Charles (Pat); sister Lynn (Joe); and sister-in-law Betty Lewis; children, Pat Keefe (David), Michael (Diane), Ken (Rhea), Kathy Weissinger (Steve), Mary, Ann, Peggy and Barbara; grandchildren, Ben (Rose), Ashley (Chris), Josh (Jenna), Katelyn (Jeremy), Matt, Lazaro (Sara), Haley, Jessica, Cameron, Jonathon, Nick, Joe (Brittany), Nathan, Michael, Sam and Berkley; great-grandchildren, Skylar, Lilly, Ariadne, Alexandra, Cash, Brecken, Veronica, James, Cameron, Emma and Temperance. Barbara has a large extended family of cousins, nieces and nephews throughout the country.
Barbara was preceded in death by her husband, Jack, sister-in-law, Margaret, sister and brother-in-law, Jean Crawford (Bill); brother and sisters-in-law, Paul Schumacher (Virginia) (Susan); brother-in-law Tom Lewis.
