Robert Ewing, III

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Robert Wilson Ewing, III
Born	May 25, 1935(1935-05-25)
Died	March 27, 2007 (aged 71) Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, USA
Nationality	American
Occupation	Newspaper executive; [Sports]] and underwater photographer
Spouse	Divorced from Kathie Robinson Ewing
Children	Krista E. Wilson (married to Johnny Wilson) and Robert Wilson Ewing, IV (married to Faustena Ewing)
Parents	Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Ewing
Notes Ewing, III, performed free-lance underwater photography for National Geographic and Jacques Cousteau.

Robert Wilson Ewing, III (May 25, 1935-March 27, 2007), was a sports and underwater photographer for the Monroe News Star in Monroe, Louisiana. According to his obituary, Ewing performed free-lance work for National Geographic and the naturalist Jacques Cousteau. As the grandson of News Star founder Robert Wilson Ewing, I, he was a member of the newspaper board of directors.

He attended the public Neville High School in Monroe but graduated from a private school in New Jersey. He attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Ewing, I, founded the Monroe Morning World in 1930. Wilson Ewing, the son of Ewing, I, and the father of Ewing, III, was the editor and publisher of the Morning World from 1938 to 1952, when he died of a heart attack. Wilson Ewing briefly took the helm of the Shreveport Times after the death of his brother, John D. Ewing, Sr., who had been the Times publisher and editor since 1931. Both Wilson Ewing and John D. Ewing, Sr., died in 1952.

In 1977, Robert Ewing's family, including Edmund Graves Brown, sold the newspapers to Gannett. The two Monroe papers consolidated in 1980 as the News-Star-World. On May 22, 1988, the name changed to simply The News Star. In addition to the Shreveport Times and the Monroe publication, Ewing's namesake grandfather, a well-known publisher and journalist for more than four decades, owned the former New Orleans Daily States.

Ewing, III, died at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe from injuries sustained in an accidental fall down a freight elevator shaft at a Monroe storage and warehouse company. He was divorced from the former Kathie Robinson, the mother of his daughter, Krista E. Wilson (husband Johnny Wilson), and his son, Robert W. Ewing, IV (wife Faustena Ewing).

He is interred in Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery in Metairie in Jefferson Parish near New Orleans.