Eddy Co. NM - OBIT: LAWRENCE EVANS Submitted By: patti pennington ************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************ The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad (NM) Current Argus - January 5, 2000 EVANS A memorial service is scheduled for January 7 at West Funeral Home for Lawrence Evans. Cremation has taken place. Masonic rites will be performed by members of Eddy Lodge No. 21 AF&AM. Evans, 90, died December 29 at Carlsbad Medical Center. West Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. He was born July 28, 1909, in Grayson, Ill., to Lewis E. and Barbara Ellen Bowers Evans. He grew up in Grayson and Eldorado, Ill., and graduated from Eldorado Township High School in 1928. He married Mary Edna Esarey in Opdyke, Ill., on March 29, 1933. In 1952, he moved to Carlsbad. He was a 57 year member of the Masonic Lodge. He was initiated an Entered Apprentice on January 10, 1941, and passed to the Degree of Fellowcraft on February 4, 1941. He was raised to Sublime Degree of Master Mason on February 18, 1941, in Eldorado Lodge No. 730 in Eldorado, Illinois. He was preceded in death by his wife, both parents, four brothers, Robert, David, Samuel and J.C., and one sister, Elizabeth. Survivors include a son, Stanley Evans and wife, Sharon of Carlsbad; daughter, Edna Kelly and husband, Larry, of Houston, Texas; sister Barbara Prehara of Evansville, Ind.; two granchildren, Evan Kelly of Frisco, Colo., and Joanna Kelly of New York City; three step- grandchildren, John E. Guck, Anthony H. Guck and David A. Guck; and six great-grandchildren.