Caroline "Candy" Jane Lehrer

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d/o Clayton and Mary Newhouse

Caroline Newhouse Lehrer of Garwood, Texas passed away September 21, 2003. She was born, October 6, 1922 in Washington, Indiana, thedaughter of Mary and Clayton Newhouse.

Her family moved to Weston, West Virginia when she was two years old, where she grew up and graduated from Weston High School in 1940.

She graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri in 1943. After graduation, she became an airline stewardess for C&S Airlines, in Memphis, Tennessee and later for Braniff Airlines in Dallas, Texas.

She married William N. Lehrer in 1952. She was active in The Christ Episcopal Church in Eagle Lake, Texas. She was a Daughter of the King, a member of D.A.R., a pink lady at the Eagle Lake Hospital, a member of the Magnolia Homes Tour of Columbus, Texas and the Clipted Wings Sorority.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Mary and Clayton Newhouse, her sister, Esther N. Fitzwater, and her husband, William N. Lehrer.

Caroline is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Gretchen and Jack McMenimen of Mill Valley, California, Nancy and Curtis Boyd, of Sugar

Land, Texas; daughter Mary L. Armour of Stafford, Texas; son and daughter-in-law William Paul and Monica Lehrer of Garwood, Texas; and five grandchildren.

The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday September 25, 2003 at Christ Episcopal Church, 304 E. Stockbridge, in Eagle Lake, Texas, with Reverend Steve Whitfield officiating. Private interment will follow at the Lehrer Memorial Cemetery in Garwood, Texas.

Visitation will be held from 12:00 noon until 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at the Henneke Funeral Home, 1515 Montezuma in Columbus, Texas, phone (979)732-2143.

Pallbearers will be Ralph A. Savino, Harry Corliss, Tom Reed, Chris Shaw, Randy Turner and Peter Lewis.

Honorary pallbearers are Bill Harrison, Dale Hunt, Anthony Kallina, Robert Schiurring, Earl Smith, J. B. Scarlett, Dr. Robert Jackson, Dr. Russell Thomas and Steve Balas.

Her family would like to sincerely thank Dr. Robert Jackson, Mary Aldridge, Severina Zepeda, Irma Russell, Beatrice Cunningham, Pearlie Ford, Marchell DeNeal, Michelle Harden, Mary Moses, Jackie Allen and Erasmo Flores for their faithful loving care.

Caroline was a gracious and loving person and will be missed immensely by her family, community and a great host of friends.