OBIT: Evans, Elden T. - 1994 - Rowan Co, KY

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Contributed by: Louis M. Stewart Jcarter725@aol.com
Date: June 15, 1999
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The Courier-Journal  Louisville, KY
Copyright 1994

Friday, October 28, 1994

NEWS


EX-MOREHEAD MAYOR ELDON EVANS DIES
FROM STAFF AND SPECIAL DISPATCHES

MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Eldon T. Evans, a former Morehead mayor and
civic leader, died Wednesday at St. Claire Medical Center of
pneumonia. He was 84.

During his four years as mayor in the 1960s, Evans began the
widening of Triplett Creek and tapped the Licking River for the
city's water. He also served one term as a city council member.

Evans bought Drew Evans Tie Co., a railroad tie business, from
his father in 1938 and operated the company until liquidating it in
1980.

He also was a farmer and owned land in Rowan, Bath, Morgan and
Elliott counties. He used the properties to get timber for the
railroad ties.

Evans was a retired Air Force colonel who served on active duty
from 1932 to 1946. He was a Reserve officer until 1970.

He had been a member and vice president of the original
Northeast Kentucky Hospital Foundation, which developed St. Claire
Medical Center. He also had been a director of Peoples Bank of Sandy
Hook from 1946 until the 1980s.

He was a native of Clearfield, a past president of the Morehead
Chamber of Commerce and the United Fund and a member of Morehead
Masonic Lodge 654, El Hasa Temple in Ashland and Scottish Rite
Morehead Chapter and Council.

He served on the Lee Cemetery board and was former president of
the cemetery association.

His survivors include two daughters, Lynn Schuyler Evans of
Clearwater, Fla., and Mary Drew Schmitt of Anchorage; a sister,
Gladys McCartney of Flemingsburg; and two grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Morehead United
Methodist Church, with burial in Lee Cemetery. Visitation will be at
Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals after 5 p.m. tomorrow.

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