}); Rumors swirled on Twitter Thursday night about the passing of Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). media-tech companies with hubs around the world. I too have lost what I most loved. Now Gresham's only guardian, he protected the teenager from the full extent of his poor health. Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) issued an apology Saturday after sharing a false report that Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) had died. On Lewis' website, a statement read, "It is with great sadness and sorrow to announce that Tony Lewis has unexpectedly passed away. That comes across.”.

Like Lewis, they found great meaning in Christianity, and for a time they helped lead a counselling missionary in Ireland before settling in the sun in Malta. 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He was full of laughter and jokes and stories. She & John Met at a New Year’s Eve Party & Were Married a Year Later. It was also clear, however, that he had an enormous personality and sense of fun. Lewis co-founded The Outfield in 1984 with drummer Alan Jackman and guitarist John Spinks (November 28, 1953 – July 9, 2014). }. Lillian Miles died on December 31, 2012, at the age of 73 at Emory University Hospital after suffering longtime health issues. Lillian and her husband had a son, John Miles Lewis. ga('ads.send', { “He is resting comfortably at home.”. ", Sober the next day, Gresham took on the task of telling a distracted world about the death of CS Lewis.

Apart from 'Your Love', which has become a staple of '80s classic hits, they also wrote hits songs such as 'All the Love in the World', 'Since You've Been Gone', 'Everytime You Cry', 'Voices of Babylon', 'For You', 'Closer to Me' and 'Say It Isn’t So'. ", The news of Lewis's death, delivered in the headmaster's drawing room by his wife, who clutched a large whisky, came as "a crushing blow", Gresham says. But Gresham says his stepfather would have approved. One of my all time favorite albums, I know every word to every song.The Outfield singer/songwriter Tony Lewis died “suddenly and unexpectedly” at 62.#RIPTonyLewisSeriously one of the best albums ever.Listen + thank me later.https://t.co/tAxABZt89k. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), The correspondence between Van Osdall and Lewis sprang up when the scientist wrote for advice on a planned book about science and Christian faith. }); I'm getting used to it but it's always a little difficult. Gresham went to agricultural college after leaving school and met his wife, Merrie, to whom he has now been married for 47 years. He loved his fans dearly and enjoyed every opportunity he had when meeting all of you.

},false) let gads_event; ga('ads.send', { She died in 2012 after suffered a long illness, Specific details about Lillian Miles Lewis’ cause of death were not shared publicly when she died. Windows down, All the Love in the World on 10. } "But he was the antithesis of what I had imagined – a stooped, balding, professorial gentleman with unbelievably shabby clothes and nicotine-stained fingers. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. 'Your Love' continues to be a big hit to this day and is played on over 1000 radio stations, and averages over two million streams on Pandora, one million views on Youtube, and one million streams on Spotify, as per Lewis' website. Nobody noticed that Lewis was gone, but for Gresham the loss was devastating. The great tragedy of CS Lewis’s life was the loss of his wife, Joy Davidman, to cancer in 1960. ga('create', 'UA-67136960-15', 'auto', 'ads'); HBCU Buzz, a blog reporting on historically black colleges and universities, also shared the false report on its website and Twitter account, according to the outlet. John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American statesman and civil rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. As fellow academics and devout Christians, the two men went on to explore their mutual interest in science and theology before finding themselves sharing private thoughts on the death of loved ones. He was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966. Fans of the band, and the singer, were quick to post tributes on Twitter. I lost an illusion and gained a great friend and, later, a father.". John Lewis’ cause of death was pancreatic cancer, according to his family. The new letters – two by Van Osdall and three by Lewis, some of the last he ever wrote – show that the questions that vexed Lewis then continued to dominate his thoughts to the end. The cause of Lillian Lewis’ death has not been released to the public as of press time, but Congressman Lewis is en route back to Atlanta to make home-going arrangements.

I am deeply sorry to Congressman John Lewis, his family, and his staff for the erroneous information posted to our social media accounts earlier today. Even today, a child will write to him every now and then.". All rights reserved. The rest of the world knew him as CS Lewis. In a 1963 letter to American scientist Thomas Van Osdall, with whom he struck up a correspondence late in life, the author wrote of his sadness to learn that Van Osdall’s only child, Thomas, had been killed in a car crash at the age of 18, in 1962.