Calvinita Jo Lucas was born on May 6, 1961 to Helen Elizabeth (Brown) and Calvin C. Lucas. Calvinita was born in Great Bend, Kan. She moved to Kansas City, Kan. where she graduated from FL Schlagle High School in 1979. Calvinita was married to Kurtis Lewis and they had two children. They moved to Portland, Ore. where she raised her children. Kurtis and Calvinita later divorced.

Calvinita was the proud mother of LaShawna Inez and Kurtis E. Lewis Jr. She loved her children and grandchildren very much. 

Calvinita was preceded in death by her beautiful daughter, LaShawna; Helen Elizabeth (Brown) Lucas (Mother); and Calvin C. Lucas, Sr., (Father); Deborah D. Reece (sister); and Calvin C. Lucas, Jr. (brother). She leaves behind her son Kurtis E. Jr., and grandsons, Kane’n, Keiyohn, Kurtis Ill, and King Lewis; brothers Michael (Alma) and Carl Lucas; sisters Ann Perry (Mack), Velma Sykes, and Lianna Keith (Leroy); Uncle Chester and Aunt Rowena Brown, Uncle Charles Brown, Uncle Cecil and Aunt Odessa Brown; Aunt Zarah (Lucas) Smith; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Calvinita Jo Lewis went to be with the Lord, July 30, 2023.

Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, Aug. 12, 2023