Earlene Joyce Evans
Obituary
Earlene Joyce (Lynch) Evans, born Nov.
11, 1944, passed away on Oct. 12, 2016, following a lengthy battle
with Alzheimer's disease. A 1962 graduate of Newton High School and
of business school, she was honored to have been selected as Fire
Prevention Queen and as Homecoming Queen. She met Ron Evans through
her work, and they married on June 5, 1965, making their home in
Wichita before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and later to Broken Arrow,
Oklahoma. She and Ron raised two children, Ed and Elaina.
Earlene is preceded in death by her
parents, Earl and Irene Lynch; by her sister Joan; her brother Jay;
and by her niece, Tiffany Morrison.
Earlene is survived by her husband of
51 years, Ron Evans; by her children Ed, Elaina and Beth; by her
aunt, Ida Unruh; by her grandchildren, Jenny and Brett Rottmayer and
Alexis Pavlik; by her brothers and sisters, Sidney and Rita Evans and
Father Michael Evans; by her great-grandchildren, Jensen, Logan,
Braelyn, and Aidan Rottmayer; and by many other nieces, nephews,
cousins and friends.
She had a great heart for service and
loved doing volunteer work for the Broken Arrow hospital, for the
Children's Day Nursery, for the Assistance League, as a homeroom
mother, and as a Cub Scout and Camp Fire leader. Many of her
schoolmates remained lifelong friends, and she easily made friends
everywhere she went. Among those friends were Ron's colleagues and
their families, neighbors and those with whom she volunteered. She
enjoyed swimming, her pets, cooking and baking for the holidays, her
volunteer work and spending time with friends and family.
The family is grateful to Debbie
Barrett and to Doris Hall, her kind-hearted caregivers, and to St.
Simeon's Senior Community and St. Francis Hospice, who cared for her
in the final stage of her illness.
The family asks, in lieu of flowers,
that you consider a donation in Earlene's memory to the Alzheimer's
charity of your choice , or to St. Antony's Orthodox Church in Tulsa.
She was laid to rest in Tulsa at Memorial Park Cemetery.
