Funeral services for Leonard McEwan, 82, of Sheridan will be 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church with the Revs. David Duprey and Kevin Jones officiating.

Mr. McEwan, former Wyoming Supreme Court justice and 4th Judicial District Court judge, died Jan. 24, 2008, of omplications from diabetes.

He was born in 1925 in Great Falls, Mont., to Leonard and Olga McEwan. The family moved to Sheridan in 1939.

Mr. McEwan was a 1943 graduate of Sheridan High School. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

He attended the University of Wyoming, where he played football for the Wyoming Cowboys. In 1947, he was part of the first Wyoming Cowboy football team to travel by airplane to an away game.

He remained a lifelong fan of the Wyoming Cowboys and traveled with the team in recent years.

He married Cameon Wolfe in 1953 in Story.

He graduated from law school in 1957 and began his practice in Sheridan.

He was a speaker and master of ceremonies for organizations, was active in Democratic Party politics, and was a member of Rotary, Elks, Kalif Shrine, American Legion, Cowboy Joe Club and American Bar Association.

He also was a member of the Sheridan College and Sheridan Memorial Hospital foundations and, along with other Sheridan High School teammates, started the Dead Pecker Society, which met in Story.

He was elected to the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1968, serving as a justice and chief justice until 1974, when he resigned to become judge of the 4th Judicial District Court, serving Sheridan and Johnson counties. He retired as district judge in 1985.

Mrs. McEwan died in 1977. Mr. McEwan married Mary Amschel on Feb. 22, 1988, in Hemet, Calif. They lived in her family’s summer home in Story.

In addition to his first wife, Mr. McEwan was preceded in death by two brothers, Lionel and Jim.

Survivors include his wife; three stepsons, Edward T., Peter and Stephen J. Amschel; one brother, Robert Lee McEwan; nine step-grandchildren; and three step-great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Sheridan College Foundation in care of Linda Lawrence, P.O. Box 6328, Sheridan, WY 82801 or to Sheridan Rotary Foundation in care of Jim Weber, P.O. Box 997, Sheridan.

The Sheridan Press - January 28, 2008