LISBON FALLS – Ewing Walter Fox, 56, of Lisbon Falls, died unexpectedly at home on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

He was born March 28, 1954 in Rutland, Vt., spent his early years in Chippenhook and attended schools in Palmer, Mass. and Claremont, N.H., where he graduated from Stevens High School in 1972. After a post graduate year at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Mass., he received a bachelor’s degree in 1977 from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.

Ewing had a distinguished career in sales and management. For 14 years, he was a systems architect and Project Leader at L.L. Bean, where he received the prestigious Bean’s Best Award in addition to other accolades for the development of a number of now classic Bean innovations. He was an outdoor enthusiast with a love of fishing, camping, skiing, golfing, gardening and especially riding his Harley. Ewing was a talented craftsman, including carpentry and woodworking and was a voracious reader.

Mr. Fox is survived by his son, Ewing David Fox, daughter-in-law, Heather Davis Fox and granddaughter, Logan Rae Fox, of Essex Junction, Vt.; his daughter, Crosby Elizabeth Fox and son-in-law, Kent W. Collier, Esq. of Atlanta, Ga.; his daughter, Emily C. Fox of Bowdoin; his parents, Wayne C. and Elizabeth Ewing Fox of Westport, N.Y.; and his sister, Elizabeth Fox, niece, Elizabeth Marbury Dyke and nephew,  William Bainbridge Dyke, all of Greenwich, Conn.