Kenilworth Obituary: Audrey J. Ewing, nee Schulze, 88

The following obituary is courtesy of Donnellan Family Funeral Services.

Audrey J. Ewing, nee Schulze, 88, passed away on December 26, 2015. A longtime resident of Kenilworth, she was a devoted wife, mother and educator. She was married for 66 years to Raymond P. Ewing and the mother of Jane (Larry) Ewing Cramer, who predeceased her.

She was born June 14, 1927, in St. Louis Mo. She received an A.A. Degree from Hannibal-LaGrange College in 1948, an M.S. Degree in Education from the University of Missouri in 1950, and attended the Sorbonne, University of Paris, in 1954. She taught the fifth grade in the Park Forest public school system from 1950 to 1954 and the fifth grade in Glencoe from 1954 to 1957, when she left the Glencoe school system to give birth to her daughter, Jane.

She earned an MA Degree from Northwestern University, majoring in diagnosis and remediation of learning disabilities, in 1969, and returned to the Glencoe school system in that capacity in 1970. She joined the faculty at Northeastern University teaching graduate courses in learning disabilities and directing the University’s Diagnostic Center for the Learning Disabled, as well as supervising graduate student interns which she helped place in over 60 public schools in Chicago and suburbs all of which she visited on site from 1978 to 1986.

During this period, she worked on her doctorate in cognitive development at Northwestern University, successfully completing all required course work and the doctoral exam, when she changed her career path to care for an elder member of her family. She decided not to complete a doctoral thesis, as she did not plan to return to university teaching, thereby becoming a d.w.d., a doctor without dissertation as fellow graduate students joked. She never regretted her decision. She also acquired a certificate from the C G Jung Institute of Chicago.

In retirement, beside extensive travel, she pursed the study of the French language through Alliance Francaise and classes given by the New Trier Extension Program and the North Shore Senior Center until the end of her life.

Burial will be private in the churchyard of the Winnetka Congregational Church by family members.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the North Shore Senior Center, 161 Northfield Road, Northfield, IL 60093, would be appreciated