Shawnee resident Evelyn Linch Wilson died Saturday in Neosho, Missouri. She was 81.

Mrs. Wilson was born August 27, 1916, in Porterville, California to August George and Edith Bell Stover Wittenborn.

She married Oscar Wilson on June 3, 1967, in Selmar, California.

Mrs. Wilson moved to Shawnee in 1988 and was a member of Gordon Cooper Church of God.

Survivors include her daughter, Betty Jean Garges, California; son, James William Linch, Oregon; sister, Alberta Wycoff; brothers, Chester, Byron and Melvin Wittenborn; seventeen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.

Services will be 1:00 p.m. Wednesday at Gaskill-Owens Funeral Chapel with Michael Smith and Bob Huskey officiating.

Burial will be in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.