Ethel Love (McCune) & Andrew Allen "Dan" Evans<Tombstone Photo Fairlawn CemeteryElk City, Beckham County, Oklahoma

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Mrs. A. A. (Ethel) Evans

© Elk City Daily News

12 Sep 1983

Submitted by: Jack Durham

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 Joymakers 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.