Fred Egerton Ewart |
| Posted 2008-11-11 by Pat Wilson |
| Ewart, Dr. Fred Egerton Dr. Fred Egerton Ewart, 90, of Mesa, died September 23, 2003. He was born in Lynn Massachusetts in 1913, graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and completed his medical training at the University of Illinois in Chicago Medical School. Before coming to Mesa, he worked in the emergency room of the Cook County Medical Center and later as a pediatrician and Captain in the United States Army. He continued in the Army Reserve until l953 when he was honorably discharged. He came to Mesa to be its first pediatrician in 1950, feeling he could be more a part of his community in a smaller developing, town, locating his practice across the street from the old Southside Hospital on 24 N. Hibbert. He was proud of his involvement in the writing of the Mesa city charter and his later service as a volunteer Deputy Sheriff in the Maricopa County Mounted Sheriff's Posse. His greatest impact on the community however will be the hundreds of children, now mostly adults, whose lives were made better by his firm but gentle care and many of whose lives were saved by his efforts. In 1988, he retired from medical practice after nearly 40 years. In 1994, Dr. Ewart and his wife Marla were called to serve an 18 month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at the San Diego Family History Center. He is survived by his wife Marla, his sons Richard (Heidi) Smith, Karl (Wendy) Smith, Raymond (Vickie) Smith, Kim (Julie) Smith, Fred (Michelle) Smith, Gregg Ewart, Charles Ewart of Indiana, twenty-one grand-children, one great-grand-child and his nephews Jim, Steven and David Ewart. Viewings was held at Bunker Family Funeral Home, 33 N. Centennial Way in Mesa and services at the Mesa Central Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 925 N. Harris Drive. Published in the Arizona Republic on 9/26/2003. See Also: Find A Grave |
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