Lura Iona Ewing

Lura “Tootie” Pittman Ewing passed away Sunday, October 13, 2019 at her home in Senatobia, MS.

She was the tenth of twelve children born to Alma Lloyd and Louis Patton Pittman who preceded her in death. She is also preceded in death by three sisters, Ruby Scruggs, Linda Lee, and Vera Lucius along with two brothers, Carl “Buddy” Pittman and Charles David Pittman.

She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Robert B. Ewing, Jr. of Senatobia, MS; three children, Candy Murry of Reading, PA, Robert B. Ewing, III of Mont Clare, PA, and Stephanie Wosko of Coatsville, PA; seven grandchildren, Cameron and Celia Murry, Kieran and Morrigan Wosko, and Dylan, Lucy, and Owen Ewing; four sisters, Sarah Darby of Enid, MS, Lula Morrissey of Batesville, MS, Jenny Waldo of Memphis, TN, Bonnie Bass of Huntingdon, TN; and two brothers, Terry and Mack Pittman both of Batesville, MS.

Lura was born in a small area of Panola County called Locke Station. She completed nursing school in late 1971 and began work as a floor nurse at the new hospital in Sardis, MS. After marrying the love of her life, she moved to Memphis and worked on the floor at the Methodist Hospital where they performed eye surgeries. After working there a while, she moved to Charlotte, NC where she worked at a hospital on a floor where heart surgeries were performed. She moved several more times and always found a new hospital to work. Lura and her husband retired in 2003 and they returned back to the mid-south in Senatobia, MS.

The immediate family will have a private memorial service at a later date.