Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Evans ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Evans Double funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Celeste First Baptist Church for Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Evans of the White Rock community. Rev. Earl Allen, pastor of the Celeste Baptist Church conducted the services and burial was in the Celeste Cemetery with James-Coker-Peters directing. Pallbearers were Hugh Howan, Charles Stone, Weldon Prince, Troy Prince, Roy Stapleton, Ed Morton, R. L. Rouser, Warren Brumley, Gene Moss, Kenneth Prince, Robert Holloway, and Scott Wright. The entire community was shocked when Mr. Evans died from a heart attack about 4:30 PM Friday, November 11, and Mrs. Evans died of a similar attack the following Saturday morning, November 12, 1955. The couple had gone to Ladonia on Veterans’ Day to see the Celeste-Ladonia football game when Mr. Evans became suddenly ill. He saw a doctor in Ladonia and started home, but decided he would stop by the Wolfe City Hospital and see another doctor. The doctor came to the car and had just told Mr. Evans he would probably be all right, but if not, to come back to the hospital, when a fatal attack struck him. Mrs. Evans and a son, Ralph Evans, were in the car with him at the time. On Saturday morning, Mrs. Evans and other members of the family had gone to Greenville and made funeral arrangements for her husband at James-Coker-Peters Funeral Home when she suffered a heart attack. The family had left the funeral home to go to the home in White Rock and Mrs. Evans was stricken when they reached downtown Greenville. Ralph Evans was sitting in the car with his mother when death came, just as he was with his father. The couple was married on December 4, 1911. They were members of the Baptist Church and both were active in church and community affairs. The operated a combination grocery store and service station at White Rock. They are survived by two sons, Ralph Evans, a Celeste merchant, and Eugene Evans, who is serving with the US Armed Forces in Korea and who arrived home Wednesday for the services; three daughters, Mrs. Sherman Wright, Wolfe City, Mrs. W. H. Wright, White Rock, and Mrs. Frank Pursell, Fort Worth; and seventeen grandchildren. Mrs. Evans was a native of Celeste, the former Katie Lou Fitzwater, born on August 5, 1895. Her parents were Tom Fitzwater and Lela Webb Fitzwater. Mr. Evans, a native of Alabama, was born on May 6, 1891, the son of B. L. Evans and Adrey Thompson Evans. When he was a child, his parents brought him to Texas and he had since made his home in Celeste and White Rock. Mr. Evans’ survivors besides his children are two sisters, Mrs. Maud Mock of Corpus Christi and Mrs. Dora Moore of Lamesa; four brothers, Martin Evans of Westville, Oklahoma, Chilton Evans of Refugio, Texas, Fred Evans of Dallas, and J. B. Evans of Winnsboro. Mrs. Evans leaves one brother, George Fitzwater of Corpus Christi; and seven sisters, Mrs. Ethel Quinton, Mrs. Gladys Jackson, and Mrs. Katherine Jones, Dallas; Mrs. Babe Hite and Mrs. Barney Oldfield, Alto Loma; Mrs. Birdie Ramsey, Corpus Christi; and Mrs. Martha Joe Hilger, Greenville. (November 18, 1955, The Celeste Courier)