He was a Vietnam era veteran of the US Army and an enthusiastic patriot who descended from one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Michael earned a BA from the University of Dallas, did graduate work at St. Louis University (Missouri), and received a Licentiate and a Doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University of Salamanca.
His main teaching positions were at Loras College (Iowa) and Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary (Nebraska and Pennsylvania). Prof. Ewbank's book Thinking about Thinking: Logic appeared in December. A Thomasian thinker, Dr. Ewbank published some thirty scholarly articles in Medieval Studies, The New Scholasticism, The Review of Metaphysics, American Philosophical Quarterly, and journals in Europe.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Elizabeth C. Wilhelmsen (Springtown), cousins Karen Berton Fayard and Sharon Berton Breaux (Louisiana), and sisters-in-law Dr. Alexandra Wilhelmsen (Lewisville, Texas) and F. Juliana Wilhelmsen (Avila, Spain).
Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, May 10, at 2:00 p.m. at Mater Dei Catholic Parish, 2030 E State Hwy 356, Irving, with Dom Christopher Andrews, OSB, celebrant. The entombment will follow at Calvary Hill Cemetery, 3235 Lombardy Lane, Dallas.
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