We have had several classmates commit suicide. Lewis ended his own life and I have never been able to understand what would drive anyone to that extreme. Mike Richman and I have stayed close after graduation and Lewis lived a couple of houses from Mike during high school. Mike told me a year ago about the circumstances around Lewis's death. Lewis was living and working in Dayton, Ohio and had married his soulmate. His wife became ill and died. Lewis so loved his wife and she was the sole reason for his own existance that he apparently could find no meaning for continuing on.
I didn't know Lewis well, but I recall playing some scrub football and baseball with him when I was visiting Mike during high school.
We miss you Lewis and I wish we could have enjoyed your company at the reunion.
While living in Bond Hill we lived a couple doors apart.We were grade school classmates as well as play mates. A again some one moves and looses contact. Sorry to find out that he left us early, we had some good times together.
