Warren Leon Stewart

Warren Stewart, recently of Temple, Texas, was born on The Ides of March, 1930, to Leon Browning and Esther Collins Stewart of Mound Road, Jacksonville, Illinois. His education from grade one through seven was in a one-room country schoolhouse, followed by graduation from Jacksonville High School in 1947.

He trained in Clinical Psychology at MacMurray College, Western Illinois University, and the Ellis Institute in New York where he earned an Associate Fellowship in Psychotherapy. Following an Internship at the Jacksonville State Hospital, he was a Staff Psychologist at the Minnesota State Hospital in Rochester until 1965. He then joined IBM for one year doing personnel research. In 1966 he was invited to join the staff of Scott & White Clinic in Temple, Texas, to begin a new Division of Clinical Psychology within the Department of Psychiatry. He remained Chief of that Division until his retirement in 1994.

He was a member of the Texas Psychological Association, the Minnesota Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Association. He authored numerous research studies for professional journals.

Warren was married to Esther Wilding from 1951 until her death in 1974 and they had three sons: Douglas Stewart and wife Janice of Wimberley, Texas, Gregory Stewart and wife Gail of Flower Mound, Texas, and Andrew Stewart and his fiancée Jody Cady of Fredericksburg, Texas, grandchildren, Emily Rose Greenwood and husband Ben of Boulder, Colorado, Rita Marie Stewart of Winthrop, Washington, Peter John Stewart of Flower Mound, Texas and Hannah Elizabeth Stewart of Flower Mound, Texas.

He met Texas girl Elizabeth Hood Kelly, a teacher at the New York School for the Deaf (Fanwood) on Christmas Day, 1976, having taken his three sons to visit his sister Carolyn Litchfield in snowy Massachusetts. After a whirlwind engagement of about seven weeks, they married at Fanwood on February 20th. Thus began a wonderful almost-50-year marriage filled with music, travel, and joy. She survives him, along with their precious sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and two adorable cats, Maggie and Minnie.

Warren was also an amateur musician. A self-taught pianist, he played in dance bands during college and early professional years. A couple of years after he and Liz married, he studied String Bass for Performance at Baylor University and performed with the Temple Symphony Orchestra, the Central Texas Orchestra, and the Southwestern University Orchestra. Over the years, he performed with Big Bands and small jazz groups. One of his true joys was playing in the “pit band” for Temple Civic Theatre musicals. After moving to Sun City in Georgetown, Texas, he played in a number of "Follies" and was a founding member of the "Just Friends" group.

Warren's wish was to be cremated and a Memorial Service in his honor will be held at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, Warren's family would be so happy to have donations made to; the Temple Civic Theatre (www.templecivictheatre.com), the Georgetown Symphony Society (centraltexasphilharmonic.org), or to the Temple Symphony Orchestra (templesymphonyorchestra.org)