I, Ethel
McCune Evans, was born in 1891 at Hope, Indian Territory. I was
the youngest of five children, four girls and a boy, born to Henry P. McCune,
a native of Ohio born in 1854, and Altha (Addington) McCune, a native of
Arkansas born in 1860.
Elk
City Daily News - September 12, 1983.
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.
At the 41 Community
Store
Photo Courtesy A.
A. Evans' granddaughter - Jan Brown
Elk
City Daily News - December 6, 1961
A. A.
"Dan" Evans' Services Set Here
Services for A. A.
(Dan) Evans, Route 2, Canute, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday from
the Second and Adams Streets Church of Christ in Elk City with Minister
Alfred Reeves, Dill City, officiating.
Born March 20, 1895
in Jacksboro, Texas, Mr. Evans, a retired farmer, died Monday, Dec. 4,
in an Elk City hospital following four years ill health; the last 8 days
of which were in the hospital.
Married to Ethel McCune
Aug. 6, 1914, in Retrop, he had lived in this area since he was two years
of age. His residence at time of death was nine miles south of Canute
in the "41" community. His church preference was Church of Christ.
Survivors include
his wife of the Canute home, a son, Joe A. Evans, Dill City, a daughter,
Mrs. Eloise Tracy, Stillwater; two sisters, Rosie Ellis, Lubbock, Texas,
and Maude Cook, Rocky, one brother, Arthur Evans, Sentinel; six grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
Burial will be in
the Fairlawn cemetery under direction of Martin Funeral Home.
Cordell
Beacon Wednesday August 9, 2000
Joe
Allen Evans
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.
Harrison
Elliott Evans passed away at his home after a lengthy illness,
October 27, 1956, at the age of 67 years, 9 months and 11 days.
He was born to James
and Eliza Evans near Jacksboro, Texas on January 16, 1889.
At the age of nine
years he moved with his parents to a farm near port, Oklahoma. He became
a Christian at the age of 18 and lived a faithful Christian life until
the end. He was married to Eula Mae Teurman on November 25, 1909, at Ural,
Oklahoma.
They moved to Cheyenne
in 1922 and lived there until 1949 when they moved to a farm near Reydon,
where he lived until his death.
He was preceded in
death by his parents, one son, Lavon, one brother and one sister.
Survivors include
his wife, Eula of the home address; four daughters, Vera Erwin of Reydon;
Mavis Libby of Hammon, Allene Campbell of Cheyenne, and Irene Sides of
Durham; one son, Billy of Reydon; also two brothers, Andrew of Canute and
Arthur of Sentinel; two sisters, Rosa Ellis of Lubbock, Texas, and Maude
Cook of Rocky, Oklahoma, seven grandchildren and 1 great granddaughter,
and a host of other relatives and friends.
Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne,
OK [Gravesite N35 36.659 W 099 41.638]
Mrs. Irene Sides departed
this life March 4, 1965 in the Cheyenne Hospital after an extended illness.
Born near Carter, Oklahoma April 5, 1915 to Eula and Harrison Evans. In
1922 she moved with her parents to a farm near Cheyenne where she lived
until 1948 when she moved to Durham, Oklahoma. On February 4, 1950
she was married to Levi Sides of Durham to this union one son James was
born. In March 1929 she became a member of the Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her father and
one brother. Survivors are her husband, Levi and son James, her mother,
Mrs. H.E. Evans, Cheyenne, Oklahoma, Three sisters, Mrs. Vera Erwin, Reydon,
Mrs. Mavis Libby, Elk City, Mrs. Alene Campbell of Cheyenne and one brother,
Billy Evans of Hammon.
Interment in the Fairview Cemetery, Durham,
Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
Eula
Mae Evans of 901 N. 6th St. of Sayre, Oklahoma departed this
life, March 21, 1977. Funeral services were held, March 23, 1977, at 2:30
p.m. at the Cheyenne Church of Christ. Officiating ministers were:
Oran Rhodes of Sayre and Johnny Freeman, Cheyenne. Interement in the Cheyenne
Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Rose Chapel Funeral
Service was in charge of the services.
Mrs. Evans passed away at the age of 87 years,
one month and 26 days. She was born January 23, 1890 and departed this
life on March 21, 1977. She married Harrison E. Evans at Elk City, Oklahoma
November 25, 1909.
After they married they lived at Port, Oklahoma
undtil 1921. They then moved to Cheyenne, then moved to near Reydon in
1949. She moved back to Cheyenne in 1957. Then she moved to Sayre in 1972
to make her home.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
one son, and one daughter.
Mrs. Evans was a long time member of the Church
of Christ. She leaves to mourn her loss: three daughters, Mrs. Cecil M.
(Vera) Erwin, Sayre, OK; Mrs. William Bill (Morris) Libby, Elk City; Mrs.
Wallace (Alene) Campbell, Cheyenne; one son, Billy, Elk City, one son-in-law,
Levi Sides, Durham. Nine grandchildren, and 13 great grandchildren, one
brother, Robert Feurman, Elk City, one sister, Rosa House, Elk City.
Pallbearers were: D.L. Calvert, Lewis Sprowls,
Randall Calvert,Frank Calvert, Paul Burks and A.F. Beaty.
Services
for Billy V. Evans, 71, of Fort Cobb was held at 10 a.m. thursday
at the Fort Cobb Church of Christ with Robert Rusher officiating.
Evans was born February
24, 1923 in Cheyenne and died Monday May 1, 1994 in Oklahoma City, OK.
He was preceded in
death by his parents, Harrison and Eula Mae Evans.
He served overseas
in World War II as a fifth-grade technician in the United States Army.
He saw combat in Germany and won many medals, including the Purple Heart.
He and the former Florence Sare were married September 1, 1950 in Sayre.
They resided in Reydon, Hammon, and Elk City before moving to the Fort
Cobb Lake area in 1980. They moved to the town of Fort Cobb in 1989.
Evans was a retired farmer and dairyman.
Survivors are his
wife, of the home; a son and daughter-in-law, Billy Ray and Debbie Evans
of Fort Cobb; 3 daughters and two sons-in-law, Helen and Ronald Baarger
of Carnegie, Vickie and Bobby Branham of Elk City and Judy Kitchko of Fort
Cobb; 3 sisters, Vera Erwin and Mavis Libby, both of Elk City and Alene
Campbell of Cheyenne; 11 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Burial with full military
rites was at 3 p.m. Thursday under the direction of the Fort Cobb Funeral
Home at the Cheyenne Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma with
Tom Harguess of Elk City officiating.
Wallace
Campbell was born July 10, 1915 in Berlin, OK to Annie Macey and
Edmond Campbell and passed away May 1, 1994 in the Roger Mills Memorial
Hospital at the age of 78 years, 9 months and 21 days. Wallace married
Wilma Allene Evans on June 5, 1937 in Sayre, Oklahoma. They lived in the
Square Top community where they farmed for a number of years before moving
to Cheyenne in 1967 to make their home. He was a member of the Cheyenne
Church of Christ. He was preceded in death by his parents, 1 brother
and 3 sisters.
He is survived by
his wife, Allene of the Home; 2 sons and daughters-in-law, Donald and Carlene
Campbell, Cheyenne and Wayne and Shirley Campbell, Yukon, OK; 2 sisters,
Ruby Jones, Elk City, OK and Dorothy Lusby, Spearman, TX; 10 grandchildren,
Robert, Donetta, Brian, Roger, Delynne, Brett, Tonda, Pamela, Brenda, and
Amanda; 7 great grandchildren, Tanner, Ryan, Evan, Jeffrey, Cory, Steven
and Katherine and a host of other relatives and friends.
Services were at 2:00
p.m. Tuesday, Mary 3, 1994 at the Cheyenne Church of Christ officiated
by Willard Cox. Interment was in the Cheyenne Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger
Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service.
Vera
Evans Erwin was born October 23, 1920 in Port, Oklahoma to Eula
and Harrison Evans. She passed away November 13, 2000 in the Elk City Nursing
Home at the age of 90 years and 20 days. When Vera was one year old
she moved with her parents to Mexico, near House. Due to her father's ill
health, they moved back to Oklahoma when she was six, living near Port
until she was eleven when the family moved to Cheyenne, Oklahoma where
she spent her childhood. She graduated from Herring High School in
May of 1930. After graduation she continued to live with her parents and
helped operate the farm. In 1949 she moved with her parents to Reydon,
Oklahoma where she met and married Cecil "Shorty" Erwin at Wheeler, Texas
on April 23, 1951. They lived on the farm east of Reydon until 1966
when they moved to Sayre, Oklahoma. Cecil passed away in 1979. Vera continued
living in Sayre until 1981 when she moved to Elk City to be near her family.
Due to failing health Vera moved to the Merrit community where she lived
with her niece, Vickie Branham and her children Cody and Casie, who she
thought of as a daughter and grandchildren. She was a member of the
2nd and Adams Church of Christ.
She was preceded in
death by her parents, husband, tow sisters and two brothers. Her
survivors include on sister, Allene Campbell, Cheyenne, Oklahoma; one sister-in-law,
Florence Evans of Ft. Cobb, Oklahoma; a host of nieces and nephews, and
other relatives and friends.
Services will be held
Thursday, November 16, 2000 at 10:00 a.m. at Second and Adams Church of
Christ, Elk City, officiated by Tom Harguess. Burial will be at Cheyenne
Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, OK under the direction of Whinery-Savage
Funeral Service.
No McCune Obits.
found to date.
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