Obit of Evans, Ethel Love  - Beckham County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Jack  <4jdurham@cableone.net>    21 Feb 2010
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::Fairlawn Cemetery--Elk City OK

Elk City Daily News - September 12, 1983. 

Funeral services for Mrs. A. A. (Ethel) Evans will be held from the 
Fifth and Roach Streets Church of Christ in Dill City Tuesday, Sept. 
13, at 2 p.m.  Bro. Alfred Reeve and Bro. Lowell Donley are to be the 
officiating ministers.  Burial will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery 
in Elk City with the Martin Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. 

Mrs. Ethel Love Evans was born Nov. 2, 1891 near Hope community, 
Indian Territory and died in the Cordell Christian Home early 
Saturday morning, Sept. 10, at the age of 91. 

When she was six months of age her father died, and when she was 6 
years old her mother died.  She and her two sisters were raised in 

the Buckner's Orphans Home in Dallas, Texas.  She attended the 
Chickasha Business College.  Before her marriage she was a telephone 
operator in Wellington, Kansas, and worked as a sales lady in a 
Sentinel clothing store.  She was married to Andrew Allen (Dan) Evans 
on Aug. 6, 1914 at Retrop.  He preceded her in death Dec. 4, 1961.  
They lived on a farm in the 41 Community just south of Canute until 
her husband's death.  Then she moved to Dill City, where she had 
lived until moving into the Cordell Christian Home in March of this 
year. 

She was a member of the 5th and Roach Streets Church of Christ in 
Dill City, and a charter member of the Joymaker's home demonstration 
club.  She was a longtime member of the Stepping Stones which is an 
organization of the Oklahoma Christian College. 

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Eloise Overholt, of Stillwater 
and one son, Joe Evans, of Canute; 8 grandchildren and 19 great 
grandchildren. 
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