Yeah, probably. But Hewitt was a bit of a free spirit.
He passed away a couple of years ago, well past the age of ninety. But one of the last times I saw him, I was driving down a street on Seattle's lower Queen Anne Avenue and I saw Hewitt walking in the opposite direction. Too much traffic to stop and "Howdy."
Hewitt was wounded in World War II. He was part of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress that got pretty badly shot up, but made it back, then crash landed. Hewitt buggered his back pretty badly and it bothered him all his life, so he walked a lot, and he walked, not with a cane, but with a bloody-great staff. Also, when he got older, he tended to let his hair and beard just grow.
As I saw him walking up Queen Anne Avenue (going to his girl friend's place), striding along with his staff and his hair and beard blowing in the breeze, he looked for all the world like a Biblical prophet!