Evans, Catherine Elizabeth
12/6/2009
Catherine E. Evans, age 89, died at her home at Silver Maples Retirement Community in Chelsea on December 6, 2009. She was born on June 26, 1920, in Shelbyville, Indiana, the daughter of Claude and Inez Cherry. She received a B. S. Degree from Indiana University in 1941 and a Masters Degree in education from Western Michigan University in 1968. On September 4, 1943, she married David Stanley Evans, Jr., who died in 1999.
They had three children, Susan (Roy Muir), of Ann Arbor, David Evans (who died in 1998), and Elizabeth (Jerry Getzel) of Richmond, VA. She is also survived by six grandchildren, Christopher (Heather) Lemon of Maybe, MI, Renee (Joel) Laney of Portland, OR, Zach (Sandi) Evans of Culver City, CA, Alexis Evans of Chicago, Bryant Getzel and Alyssa Getzel of Richmond, VA, one great-grandson, Everet Lemon of Maybe, MI, and daughter-in-law, Jackie Evans (John) Roberts, of Ann Arbor, who is the mother of Zach and Alexis Evans.
Catherines husband was a minister in the United Methodist Church, and together they served churches in East Douglas MA, Jackson, Okemos, Hillsdale, and Albion, MI. They retired together to Okemos 1985. In 2004 she moved to the Silver Maples Retirement Community where she lived until her death.
A service celebrating Catherines life will be held at Silver Maples in Chelsea at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 10, with a time for visiting with friends and family from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Maples Room at Silver Maples. Internment of her cremains will take place at a funeral service at the Okemos Community Church on Sunday, December 27 at 2:00 p.m. with visitation at 1:00 p.m.
The family suggests that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the Silver Maples Employee Scholarship Fund at the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (301 N. Main Street, Suite 300, Ann Arbor MI 48104) or to First United Methodist Church, (128 Park, Chelsea, MI 48118) or to the Okemos Community Church, (PO Box 680, Okemos, MI 48805). Notes or cards can be mailed to Susan Evans Muir, 739 Ridgemont Lane, Ann Arbor, MI 48103.
