Billy Dean Lewis

Billy Lewis

Billy Dean Lewis, 79, died, Dec. 8, 2023.

He was born on Feb. 16, 1944, to Willie Harvey Lewis and Mildred Marie (Parks) Lewis in Clinton, Mo.

He married his wife Linda Dee Spillman on Dec. 23, 1965, in Lincoln. She survives.

After his service in the Vietnam War as a Green Beret with the 5th Special Forces Group, he returned to Kansas.

A bit of a renaissance man, he made a living in various agri-business vocations while enjoying his hobbies including woodworking, leatherworking, and gunsmithing among many others, while raising a loving family that will miss him very much.

Other survivers include his daughter, Becky Karnaze and husband, Phil; sons, Matthew Lewis and significant other Debra Anne Pothier, David Lewis and wife, Nita, and Clayton Lewis; sisters, Anna Lee James, Hope, Ark. and Helen L. Hatfield and husband, Edwin, Clinton, Mo.; grandchildren, Jacob and Kristen Karnaze and Lyle and Ayden Lewis, all of Scott City; numerous nieces and nephews; and a host of other loving family members and friends Billy was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers, Charles W. Lewis, Leroy E. Lewis, J. Marvin Lewis, and Edgar L. Lewis; and four sisters, Dorothy M. Hetherington, Martha J. Minks, Nellie I. Headrick and Ethel M. Lewis.

A memorial service will be held in March of 2024 at the Pence Community Church, Pence, with Don Williams presiding.

There will be no calling times.

Memorials may be written to Park Lane Nursing Home or the Scott County EMS Radio Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Homes, Box 553, Scott City, Ks. 67871.