Gene Ross Stewart

AIKEN – Gene Ross Stewart, Lt. Commander (Ret.), 84, passed away Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 PM Saturday in the Shellhouse Funeral Home chapel with Reverend Dr. Robert Laube officiating.  Interment with full military honors will follow in Bethany Cemetery.  The family will receive friends beginning 2 hours prior to the service at the funeral home. Mr. Stewart was born in Mason, OH, a son of the late Charles Stewart and Ida Farrer Stewart Cox.  He had been a resident of Aiken since 1992, and was a member of Calvary Chapel of Aiken.  He served in the US Navy from 1948 – 1970. Survivors include two sons, Dr. Shane D. (Lynn Ann) Stewart, Aiken, Dr. Brent D. (Marcia) Stewart, Aiken; grandchildren, Joel Stewart, Ian Stewart, Benjamin Stewart, Mark Stewart, Matthew Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Laura S. Moore, Julia Stewart; great grandchildren, Chloe, Jenna and Jones Stewart; sister, Esther (Robert) Bates, Clearwater, FL; brother, Lisle (Diane) Stewart, Henderson, NV. He was preceded in death by his wife, Beverly Jean Stewart, a son, Brian Scott Stewart, grandson, Noah Jonathan Stewart. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Calvary Chapel of Aiken, 390 Croft Mill Rd., Aiken, SC 29801. Mr. Stewart’s online guest book may be signed at www.shellhousefuneralhome.com SHELLHOUSE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 924 HAYNE AVE., AIKEN, SC To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Gene Ross Stewart, please visit our flower store.