November 3, 1920 – August 9, 2023
John Seymour Belew, aged 102, passed away on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, at The Delaney on Lake Waco. A Celebration of John Belew's life will take place at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, August 26, at the Seventh & James Baptist Church in Waco. A time for visiting with family and friends will occur after the service. The family will hold a private burial earlier that day.
John was born November 3, 1920, in Waco, Texas to his parents, George Haggard Belew and Mary Seymour Belew. He grew up in Waco and graduated from Waco High School in 1937. John attended Baylor University, earning a B.S. degree with a major in Chemistry in 1941. He enrolled in the master’s program in chemistry at the University of Texas in the fall of that year. However, the United States Civil Service Commission persuaded him to become active in the war effort. Withdrawing from school after only three weeks at UT, John trained at Chanute Army Airfield, Illinois, as a civilian instructor in the United States Army Air Corps Tech nology Training Command. Later, he taught recent Army Air Corps recruits at Shepherd Army Airfield in Wichita Falls, and at Amarillo Army Airfield in the Texas Panhandle.
