Denison Herald
March 4, 1991
Page 2

Services for Ewell D. Wainwright, 83-year-old retired Merchants and Planters National senior vice president of Sherman, who died Saturday at Wilson N. Jones Hospital, were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Waldo Funeral Home Chapel.
The Rev. Gerald Demarest of First Christian Church officiated and burial was in Cedarlawn Memorial Park.
Mr. Wainwright was born in Itasca, a son of William Henry and Margaret Ada Davidson Wainwright, and was married to Virginia Douglas on November 11, 1930 in Madill, Oklahoma.
He started his banking career in 1925 in Sherman with the Central State Bank and then in 1929 went to the Merchants and Planters National Bank and retired in 1972 as a senior vice president.
Mr. Wainwright was a former member of the Toastmasters, Rotary Club for 28 years and served as treasurer, Sherman Chamber of Commerce serving as a director and treasurer. He was a charter member of the Mental Health Center which later became MHMR and served as chairman of the board. He was a member of the Grayson County Health Department for 19 years serving as a director and chairman of the board.
He was a member of the Andrew Randall Masonic Lodge 1342 AF and AM serving as a Worshipful Master, secretary and treasurer. He was a member of the Dallas Scottish Rite, Grayson County Scottish Rite Club and Hella Temple Shrine.
He was a charter member of First Christian Church.
Surviving are two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Sherman Democrat
Denison Herald
October 15, 1987

Mrs. Wainwright was born in Van Alstyne, Texas the daughter of John McGarvey Douglas and Margaret Mae Cantrell Douglas.  She died at a local nursing home in Sherman, Texas.
She graduated from Van Alstyne High Scholl and moved to Sherman in 1926 where she was employed as a secretary and bookkeeper at Roberts, Sanford and Taylor for 20 years. On November 11, 1930, she wed Ewell Wainwright in Madill, Oklahoma.
She was a former member of Sherman Business and Professional Women’s Club, member of Carpenter Chapter183 order of Eastern Star and charter member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors include her husband; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Services were held at Waldo Funeral Home Chapel, the Rev. Herbert Lynskey of the First Christian Church officiating. 

Brigadier General Ewell D Wainwright, Jr
10 July 1931 – 4 September 1981

Sherman Democrat
September 7, 1981
pg,A15

Denison Herald
September 7, 1981
pg.2

Brigadier General Wainwright was born in Sherman, Texas the son of Ewell D. Wainwright Sr. and Virginia Ann (Douglas) Wainwright and died in a Tavernier, Florida hospital following a heart attack while on his boat in the Florida Keys.
He was a 1948 graduate of Sherman High School and a 1952 of North Texas State with a BS degree in business. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1965 with a Master Degree in management engineering.
He was commissioned by direct appointment in 1952 at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB) and graduated from Officer’s Candidate School that year and was assigned to the maintenance squadron at Byron AFB, then primary training in Georgia and all weather flying school at Moody AFB, Georgia.
He served at bases in Bryan, Texas, Spence, Georgia, Moody, Georgia, Ladd, Alaska, Bunker Hill, Indiana, Peterson Field, Colorado and Ent, Colorado, before being named in 1960 as executive officer with the North American Air Defense Command-Continental Air Defense Command.
General Wainwright was aid to the commander of the 29^th Air Division, Richards-Gebauer AFB, Missouri from 1961 to 1964, then returned to NORADCONRAD as a space and missile analyst. He later served at MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida, Cam Ranh Air Base, South Vietnam, where he flew 308 F-4 combat missions in 1967 and 1968.
He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1975.  He had more than 7,300 hours as a command pilot and his military decorations and awards include the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 17 oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal with on oak leaf cluster and the Purple Heart.
General Wainwright retired from the US Air Force in November 1978, with 26 years of service.  On December 23, 1978, he married Sherry Smith in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  He was a member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Colorado Springs.
At the time of his death, he was president and general manager of Long’s Furniture and Office Supply of Miami, Florida.
Survivors include his wife of Miami; son, Larry Wainwright of Dallas, Texas; daughter Mrs. Linda Swilley, Garland, Texas; a grandson; and his parents of Sherman.
Funeral services were held at Waldo Funeral Chapel, Sherman followed with burial at the Cedarlawn Cemetery with full military honors conducted by Carswell AFB honor guard.