Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Name: Evan Garroutte
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 4/07/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
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Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA
MARCH 31, 2002

Evan Garroutte 
     Tahlequah-Funeral services for Evan Garroutte, age 81, of Tahlequah, will 
be held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 1, 2002 in Hart Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. 
George C Bowling officiating.  Burial will follow at Blue Springs Cemetery under 
of Hart Funeral Home.
     Serving as pallbearers are his nephews, Wayne Fisher, Kirby Fisher, Willard 
Fisher, Garth Fisher, Jerry Garroutte and Bill Garroutte.
     Evan Garroutte, son of Samuel Anderson Garroutte and Etta (Welch) 
Garroutte, was born Dec. 4, 1920, in Gideon, Oklahoma and died Thursday, March 
28, 2002 in Tulsa.
     Evan served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.  Evan was a self-
educated man who loved to read.  He loved working at Pryor Auction Yard.  A true 
neighbor, he spent hours helping put up hay or fixing a fence.  And most of all 
, he loved spending time on his ranch.
     He was preceded in death by his parents and several brothers and sisters, 
Samuel Garroutte, Ellis Garroutte, Zella Grubbs, Daisy Fisher, Edith Fisher, 
Estella Johnson Yarbrough, Louse Garroutte, Leota Fautt and Judy Strand.
     Evan is survived by one sister, Wilma Sue Burgt of Palm Springs, Calif.; 
two brothers, Lewis Garroutte of Watsonvile, Calif. and Loyd Garroutte of x; 
several nieces, nephews and cousins, as well as a host of friends and loved 
ones.