Having only a 4th grade education, John joined the Navy in 1943 as a teenager and took pride that he was one of the youngest crew of the submarine U.S.S. Pintado.
After John’s service in the Navy he worked as a fireman and an electrician. It was as an electrician that he learned his trade and started Industrial Electric, a thriving business in Lawton, Oklahoma.
He collected old vehicles among other things and made a public museum to store and share them in, the Lewis Fire, Transportation and Farm Museum in Lawton Oklahoma. He traveled extensively in the USA to search out old fire engines, and farm and oil-field trucks.
He was known locally as a generous man, frequently doing something to help others. They mention free pecan trees given to senior citizens and other civic-minded projects. They say his museum, open to the public since August 1986, is another example of how Lewis tries to make people's lives more interesting and enjoyable.
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