Dorothy McGuirk Lewis, colorful mother and former "Navy wife" died November 3 in Annapolis of respiratory failure. She was 89.

Mrs Lewis was a New Orleans native and attended Sophie Newcomb College where she was active in the school's drama department. Her fondest memory of her youth was being in the Krewe of Proteus court, the second oldest Mardi Gras parade.

She married Boyd Lewis, a graduate of Tulane University who became a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy during World War II. Their wedding was the first military wedding at Harvard Chapel. During the war years, she played the "Navy wife," meeting her new husband at ports of call all over the nation.

After the war, she raised four children and lived in a variety of places, settling in Memphis, Tennessee and then Duluth, Georgia. After her husband died in 1984, "Granny Dot," as she was known to all, lived near her children in Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, Ca., and finally in Arnold, Md., where she was an active member at the Arnold Senior Center.

Survivors include three sons, Boyd Lewis, Jr. of Altadena, Ca., Stewart Lewis or Arnold, Md., and Richard Lewis of Memphis, Tn., a daughter, Kathryn Jensen of Myrtle Beach, SC., five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
501 St. Jude Place
Memphis, TN 38105
USA .