Submitted by: Jack Durham

Joe Allen Evans

© Cordell Beacon

Wednesday August 9, 2000

Submitted by: Jack Durham

Funeral services for Joe Evans were conducted Friday, August 4th at 2:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Dill City. Rev. Jimmie Prickett and Bro. Truman Teel officiated. Interment in the Fairlawn Cemetery at Elk City followed the services under the direction of Martin Funeral Home.

Joe Evans was born March 13, 1918 in the 41 Community, Washita County, to Andrew Allen "Dan" and Ethel McCune Evans. He died August 1, 2000 at the age of 82 in St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City. He graduated from Port High School in 1936 and from Oklahoma A & M College in Stillwater in January 1941.

He worked for Swift & Company in Dallas. He married Iola "Sunny" Hubbard on November 26, 1941. They moved back to Washita County in 1942, where they farmed and ran a country store at "41".

Joe taught Veterans' Class at Dill City and Foss. The family later moved to Dill City, where he was manager of the Farmers Coop Gin. He also served as secretary of the Oklahoma Ginner's Association. He was co-owner of C & E Cotton Warehouse in Mountain View. In 1963 he returned to full-time farming. Joe and Sunny moved to the current family home in 1968.

He was a charter member of the Dill City Lions Club, past president of the Dill City Chamber of Commerce and a member of the First Baptist Church of Dill City.

Survivors include: his wife, Sunny Evans; three children, Perry Evans and his wife Mary of Canute, Loretta Sharp and her husband Ray of Cherokee, and Marian Chambers and her husband Jack of Calumet; five grandchildren: five step-grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and six step-great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Eloise Overholt.