Ewing Walter Fox '10

Ewing with daughter Crosby at graduation.

(Photo and Memorial provided by Liz Fox.)

Ewing Walter Fox, 56, of Lisbon Falls, Maine, died unexpectedly at home on Thursday, July 29, 2010. He was born March 28, 1954 in Rutland, VT, spent his early years in Chippenhook, and attended schools in Palmer, MA and Claremont, NH, where he graduated from Stevens High School in 1972. After a post graduate year at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, MA, he received a BS in 1977 from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.

Ewing had a distinguished career in sales and management. For fourteen years, he was a systems architect and Project Leader at L.L. Bean where he received the prestigious Bean’s Best Award in addition to other accolades for the development of a number of now classic Bean innovations. He was an outdoor enthusiast with a love of fishing, camping, skiing, golfing, gardening and especially riding his Harley. Ewing was a talented craftsman, including carpentry and woodworking, and was a voracious reader.

Mr. Fox is survived by his son Ewing David Fox, daughter-in-law Heather Davis Fox, and granddaughter Logan Rae Fox, of Essex Junction, VT; his daughter Crosby Elizabeth Fox and son-in-law Kent W. Collier, Esq. of Atlanta, GA; his daughter Emily C. Fox of Bowdoin, ME; his parents Wayne C. and Elizabeth Ewing Fox of Westport, NY; and his sister Elizabeth Fox, niece Elizabeth Marbury Dyke, and nephew William Bainbridge Dyke, all of Greenwich, CT.

A memorial service will be held at 11am at Holy Trinity Church in Lisbon Falls on Tuesday, August 3. Interment will be Saturday, August 7th at the Chippenhook Cemetery in Clarendon, VT, where he will join seven prior generations of his family.

The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Coalition For Brain Injury Research, 270 Hazel Street, Clifton, NJ 07011. For more information go to www.brainjurycure.org.

Life at SHS:

Audio-Visual Club 1

Bank Teller 2

Basketball 1

Drama Club 1

Football 1

Golf 1 & 2

Gymnastics 2

Science Club 1

After SHS:

Received a BS from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at UNH

He was a Systems Architect and Project Leader at L.L. Bean for 14 years