Ronald Lewis was born in 1952. He has maintained a lower public profile than his brother Gary, and less documentary record of his adult life and career is readily available from the sources consulted for this article.
Anthony Joseph Lewis was born in 1956. He would later speak publicly about the will’s contents and his reaction to the exclusion, and his account provides one of the few direct family responses on record.
Christopher Joseph Lewis was born in 1959.
Scott Anthony Lewis was born in 1966.
Joseph Christopher Lewis was born in 1971 and died on May 28, 2009, at the age of 45, following a drug overdose. He had struggled with substance abuse during his life, a fact that became part of how Lewis’s eldest son Gary publicly processed his grief and anger in the months after Joseph’s death.
The will was executed in 2012. At that point, Joseph had already been dead for three years. His name was still included in the exclusion clause. That detail matters, because the headline about “six sons” is technically accurate to the document’s language, but five of those sons were alive when Lewis died in 2017. One had predeceased him. The will, written in 2012, named all six—making clear the exclusion was a deliberate accounting of everyone who might potentially have a claim, living or not.
It was also an exclusion that reached forward in time. The descendants of the named sons—grandchildren that Lewis may or may not have known—were also covered by the clause. A grandchild born after the will was written would have no claim under its terms. The circle of exclusion was drawn wide and deliberately.