| The exact death date was not given. The date of his funeral service was used.
A penciled notation identified the year of this newspaper article, 1991.
E. L. (LEW) STOKES, 64
(veteran)
Services were Wednesday, August 21 at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Omaha for E. L. (Lew) Stokes, 64. Burial was in Hillcrest Cemetery.
He was a chief deputy of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department; was a former deputy chief of the Omaha Police Division; and was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
He was preceded in death by a son, Steve.
He is survived by his wife, Dee; daughters and sons-in-law, Katherine and John Bintner and Susan and Dennis Binder; a daughter, Patricia Stokes; step-daughters and sons-in-law, Sandy and Perly Schoville; Kriss and Tom Shaffer; Denise and Bob Manners; Valerie and Kirk Wiles; brothers and sisters-in-law, Ron and Dinah Stokes of Encinitas, California; David and Rita Stokes, Blair; grandchildren, Adam, Scott, Lenette, Michaela, Sasha, Leah, Heath, Chad, Travis, Rachael, Sarah, Joshua, Jacob, Janna and Krik; and three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may go to St. Lukes Lutheran Church.
Heafey-Heafey-Hoffmann Dworak-Cutler in Omaha were in charge.
~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~
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