Lois Jean Thomas-Ewings

09/01/1955 - 11/04/2023

Obituary For Lois Jean Thomas-Ewings

Bernard's Family Funeral Care announces the death of Mrs. Lois Thomas-Ewings of Winder, Georgia. Mrs. Lois transitioned to eternal rest Saturday, November 4, 2023.

Mrs. Lois was the founder and former Facility Supervisor of East Athens Educational Dance Center until her retirement in 2017. She had a passion for mentoring and enriching the lives of children. Lois poured her heart into youth as the director of the Girls Club program for many years and by teaching dance. She moved to Athens in 1985 hoping to find "a representation of the arts that included racially diverse populations." Inspired by a mural painted by Wadsworth Jarrell on the side of the East Athens Community Center that identified it as a “place of the arts,” she began a volunteer program to provide a performing arts experience for under-privileged children. The program grew to the point that it required its own facility, and the East Athens Educational Dance Center was opened in 1993. Ms. Lois will always be remembered for her abiding love of the arts, and the work that she did to share that love with everyone in Athens.

Mrs. Lois' Life Celebration will be held Saturday, November 25, 2023 at the Twelve O’clock hour at the Historic Morton Theatre, 195 W. Washington Street, Athens, GA 30606.

H. Bernard Holston, Sr. and the staff of Bernard’s Family Funeral Care are honored to have been chosen to serve the Thomas-Ewings family.