R. M. EWALT, GROCER, DIES

Richard M. Ewalt, 66, a retail grocer and resident of Dallas for forty-eight years, died of a heart attack Tuesday at his home, 131 West Montana.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Lamar & Smith Funeral Chapel, 800 West Jefferson. Harold F. Lovitt, an elder of the East Dallas Christian Church, will officiate and burial will be in Restland Memorial Park.

Ewalt owned and operated a grocery at Ross and Peak.

He was born September 9, 1885 in Falmouth, Ky. and came to Dallas from there. Ewalt was a member of the East Dallas Christian Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Anna Lola Ewalt; a daughter, Mrs. Alta Evans of Dallas; and two sisters, Mrs. Dorcas Sanders and Mrs. Sudie Adams, both of Falmouth, Ky.

Pallbearers will be Stewart E. Powers, L. G. Goodnight, Fred D. Bradley, Raymond C. Harrison, Gerald Bell, and White Luna.

Dallas Morning News
May 21, 1952
Transcribed by Carol Moore