Pastor Warren C. Hewes was born August 26, 1923 in Rutland, VT to Clarence and Ella Botsford Hewes. He graduated from Washington Missionary College in Takoma Park, MD with degrees in Business and Theology. Pastor Hewes married Eleanor Louise Priest on August 12, 1951 in Auburn, ME. He worked as a pastor for the Seventh-day Adventist Church serving as Publishing Director from 1954 to 1988, living in New Jersey, Missouri, South Dakota and California. Pastor Hewes and his family also spent eight years in mission service in Rhodesia, Africa (now Zimbabwe), and he and his wife worked another seven years in Kenya, Africa. He retired in 1988 in Marshall, TX and was very active in the Marshall Seventh-day Adventist Church. He loved gardening, music, nature, and meeting people, who often parted with literature he had given to them. He was an easy-going, likeable person, a loving husband and father, and a caring friend. Surviving Pastor Hewes are his wife of 62 years, Eleanor Louise Hewes of Karnack, TX; daughters, Marilyn Joyce Kemper and husband Dr. Ed Kemper of Killeen, TX, and Cheryl Beth Steingas and husband David of Karnack; brother, Dr. C. Gordon Hewes of Loma Linda, CA; five grandchildren, Michelle Kharns (Brandon), Lisa Venteicher (Bryan), Michael Steingas, Jonathan Kemper, Ryan Steingas; and great grandson, Orion Kharns. Appreciation is especially expressed to Dr. Robert Palmer, Dr. Y Pham, Dr. Gordon Green, Robert Salmi, David Cherry, Good Shepherd Home Health, and HeartsWay Hospice of Northeast Texas, all of whom played a special role in Warren's last months. A memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, March 22, 2014 at the Jefferson Academy Seventh-day Adventist Church, 3000 FM 728, Jefferson, TX, 75657. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to: Texas Adventist Community Services, c/o Marshall SDA Church, P.O. Box 1901, Marshall, TX 75671.