Aunt Virgie, what an incredible blessing you were to me and so many others for many, many years! You were always so loving every time I saw you and we shared such an incredible love of family history which I am so thankful for!
I have shared with so many how very, very grateful I was that around 2012 you took me to visit the very small Seats Family Cemetery near Ellsinore. The weeds were almost sky high, but you had prepared us by having us wear long pants, fleece long-sleeved shirts, work gloves & boots to protect us from possible bugs, spiders and especially snakes! You also came equipped with huge wire cutters to open the gate and weed trimmers to unearth all the tombstones inside that cemetery so I could take pictures to share with others as well as add them to memorials I created for Find a Grave! I owe all the thanks to you, precious Aunt!! I look forward to seeing you again in Heaven some day.
Aunt Virgie's obituary shared the following:
Virgie Lois Carter Alcorn Evans, 90, died July 17, 2021, at Riverways Manor Nursing Home in Van Buren, Missouri, where she had lived for four years since suffering a major stroke in March of 2017. In recent days her health had declined steeply; she had been sent to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center on the Sunday prior to her death, where she was diagnosed with pneumonia. She returned to the nursing home and rallied briefly but declined more as the week went on. At the hour of her death her son Walter was by her side, holding her hand and she died peacefully and without pain.
Virgie Lois Carter was born on November 17, 1930, on Devil's Run in Carter County. She was the oldest child of Willie Cloyd Carter and the former Ova Lea Boyer, who later had four other children, though only three others lived beyond infancy. Virgie is survived by her brother, Del Carter of Gulf Shores, Alabama and Carter County, Missouri. Her other siblings, Joseph (who died as an infant), Lillie and David, preceded her in death.
Virgie began teaching school at Dry Hill School in 1947, at the age of 16. She later earned a teaching certificate from Flat River Community College and studied at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, earning most of her credits during the summer while teaching throughout the school year. In later years, she completed her bachelor's degree in education from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee and she later earned a master's degree in education from the same institution.
In the fall of 1952, she began dating Roy Alcorn, also a teacher and a resident of Carter County. They married in October of the following year. In time, they had five children, Martha, Dan, Joseph, Elizabeth and Walter, all of whom survive her. Virgie held the family together as the family grew and as Roy's career took them on many moves, first to Washington,D.C., where he worked as an assistant to Representative A.S.J. Carnahan, then to Williamsville, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Eminence, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Wilmington, Delaware; Chester, Virginia and Roanoke, Virginia, where Roy pursued his higher education and took jobs in school administration. Virgie cared for the children and pursued community and church work.
In April 1973, Roy was killed in a car accident in Nashville, Tennessee, where the family had moved at the time. Left with five children, the youngest of whom was six, Virgie held the family together, finished her bachelor's degree in education at Peabody, and taught school. She then went on to receive her Master's Degree in Education, also while teaching school. In 1980, she took a leave from teaching in Nashville and returned to her hometown of Ellsinore to work as a Vista volunteer for one year. There she helped establish a nutrition center.
When Virgie retired from teaching in Nashville in 1992, she moved back to Ellsinore permanently to be near her extended family and to devote her retirement years to her home community. Over the years, she helped organize a youth center, Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, was instrumental in forming the Carter County Boosters and established the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum. Later, she also donated the land for the Ellsinore Head Start facility. She worked tirelessly to promote her community and for the betterment of others. She was devoted to the area and to its people. She was a member of the Ellsinore Methodist Church. She identified as a Christian and was guided in her life's choices by her faith.
In 1993, she married Earl Evans and they were married until his death from cancer in 1996.
The family would like to thank the staff of Riverways Manor for the care they extended to their mother in her final years and days. Just as Virgie reached out to the community while she could, they reached back to her when she couldn't and gave her their deep affection and love. Carter County was her home, Virgie always said and where she wanted to be; to the end, the staff and other residents of Riverways Manor never let her doubt that this was true.
The family also thanks her niece, Tonya Carter, who stayed by Virgie's side throughout all the hours of her recent stay at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.
She is survived by her brother, Del, by her children, Martha, Dan, Joe, Elizabeth and Walter, by stepson, Don Evans, by stepdaughter, Roxanne Evans Pettit; by her aunt, Viola Boyer Crites, 97; by grandchildren, Jeremy and Amanda Highers, Hannah Alleman, Skylar Doerwaldt, Joseph A. Alcorn, Ryan and Delia Alcorn; by great-grandchildren Kaleb Lewis, Diego Rios, Joaquin Rios, Adrian Lewis and Josephine Alleman; and by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws and other extended family, all of whom she loved.
Visitation will be Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore and Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ellsinore United Methodist Church. Interment will follow at Henson Cemetery.
Family suggests that donations in memory of Virgie be sent to the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum. They should be made out to the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum sent to the Bank of Grandin, 14 North Herren Ave., Ellsinore, MO 63937.
I have shared with so many how very, very grateful I was that around 2012 you took me to visit the very small Seats Family Cemetery near Ellsinore. The weeds were almost sky high, but you had prepared us by having us wear long pants, fleece long-sleeved shirts, work gloves & boots to protect us from possible bugs, spiders and especially snakes! You also came equipped with huge wire cutters to open the gate and weed trimmers to unearth all the tombstones inside that cemetery so I could take pictures to share with others as well as add them to memorials I created for Find a Grave! I owe all the thanks to you, precious Aunt!! I look forward to seeing you again in Heaven some day.
Aunt Virgie's obituary shared the following:
Virgie Lois Carter Alcorn Evans, 90, died July 17, 2021, at Riverways Manor Nursing Home in Van Buren, Missouri, where she had lived for four years since suffering a major stroke in March of 2017. In recent days her health had declined steeply; she had been sent to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center on the Sunday prior to her death, where she was diagnosed with pneumonia. She returned to the nursing home and rallied briefly but declined more as the week went on. At the hour of her death her son Walter was by her side, holding her hand and she died peacefully and without pain.
Virgie Lois Carter was born on November 17, 1930, on Devil's Run in Carter County. She was the oldest child of Willie Cloyd Carter and the former Ova Lea Boyer, who later had four other children, though only three others lived beyond infancy. Virgie is survived by her brother, Del Carter of Gulf Shores, Alabama and Carter County, Missouri. Her other siblings, Joseph (who died as an infant), Lillie and David, preceded her in death.
Virgie began teaching school at Dry Hill School in 1947, at the age of 16. She later earned a teaching certificate from Flat River Community College and studied at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, earning most of her credits during the summer while teaching throughout the school year. In later years, she completed her bachelor's degree in education from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee and she later earned a master's degree in education from the same institution.
In the fall of 1952, she began dating Roy Alcorn, also a teacher and a resident of Carter County. They married in October of the following year. In time, they had five children, Martha, Dan, Joseph, Elizabeth and Walter, all of whom survive her. Virgie held the family together as the family grew and as Roy's career took them on many moves, first to Washington,D.C., where he worked as an assistant to Representative A.S.J. Carnahan, then to Williamsville, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Eminence, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Wilmington, Delaware; Chester, Virginia and Roanoke, Virginia, where Roy pursued his higher education and took jobs in school administration. Virgie cared for the children and pursued community and church work.
In April 1973, Roy was killed in a car accident in Nashville, Tennessee, where the family had moved at the time. Left with five children, the youngest of whom was six, Virgie held the family together, finished her bachelor's degree in education at Peabody, and taught school. She then went on to receive her Master's Degree in Education, also while teaching school. In 1980, she took a leave from teaching in Nashville and returned to her hometown of Ellsinore to work as a Vista volunteer for one year. There she helped establish a nutrition center.
When Virgie retired from teaching in Nashville in 1992, she moved back to Ellsinore permanently to be near her extended family and to devote her retirement years to her home community. Over the years, she helped organize a youth center, Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, was instrumental in forming the Carter County Boosters and established the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum. Later, she also donated the land for the Ellsinore Head Start facility. She worked tirelessly to promote her community and for the betterment of others. She was devoted to the area and to its people. She was a member of the Ellsinore Methodist Church. She identified as a Christian and was guided in her life's choices by her faith.
In 1993, she married Earl Evans and they were married until his death from cancer in 1996.
The family would like to thank the staff of Riverways Manor for the care they extended to their mother in her final years and days. Just as Virgie reached out to the community while she could, they reached back to her when she couldn't and gave her their deep affection and love. Carter County was her home, Virgie always said and where she wanted to be; to the end, the staff and other residents of Riverways Manor never let her doubt that this was true.
The family also thanks her niece, Tonya Carter, who stayed by Virgie's side throughout all the hours of her recent stay at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.
She is survived by her brother, Del, by her children, Martha, Dan, Joe, Elizabeth and Walter, by stepson, Don Evans, by stepdaughter, Roxanne Evans Pettit; by her aunt, Viola Boyer Crites, 97; by grandchildren, Jeremy and Amanda Highers, Hannah Alleman, Skylar Doerwaldt, Joseph A. Alcorn, Ryan and Delia Alcorn; by great-grandchildren Kaleb Lewis, Diego Rios, Joaquin Rios, Adrian Lewis and Josephine Alleman; and by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws and other extended family, all of whom she loved.
Visitation will be Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore and Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ellsinore United Methodist Church. Interment will follow at Henson Cemetery.
Family suggests that donations in memory of Virgie be sent to the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum. They should be made out to the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum sent to the Bank of Grandin, 14 North Herren Ave., Ellsinore, MO 63937.
Aunt Virgie, what an incredible blessing you were to me and so many others for many, many years! You were always so loving every time I saw you and we shared such an incredible love of family history which I am so thankful for!
I have shared with so many how very, very grateful I was that around 2012 you took me to visit the very small Seats Family Cemetery near Ellsinore. The weeds were almost sky high, but you had prepared us by having us wear long pants, fleece long-sleeved shirts, work gloves & boots to protect us from possible bugs, spiders and especially snakes! You also came equipped with huge wire cutters to open the gate and weed trimmers to unearth all the tombstones inside that cemetery so I could take pictures to share with others as well as add them to memorials I created for Find a Grave! I owe all the thanks to you, precious Aunt!! I look forward to seeing you again in Heaven some day.
Aunt Virgie's obituary shared the following:
Virgie Lois Carter Alcorn Evans, 90, died July 17, 2021, at Riverways Manor Nursing Home in Van Buren, Missouri, where she had lived for four years since suffering a major stroke in March of 2017. In recent days her health had declined steeply; she had been sent to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center on the Sunday prior to her death, where she was diagnosed with pneumonia. She returned to the nursing home and rallied briefly but declined more as the week went on. At the hour of her death her son Walter was by her side, holding her hand and she died peacefully and without pain.
Virgie Lois Carter was born on November 17, 1930, on Devil's Run in Carter County. She was the oldest child of Willie Cloyd Carter and the former Ova Lea Boyer, who later had four other children, though only three others lived beyond infancy. Virgie is survived by her brother, Del Carter of Gulf Shores, Alabama and Carter County, Missouri. Her other siblings, Joseph (who died as an infant), Lillie and David, preceded her in death.
Virgie began teaching school at Dry Hill School in 1947, at the age of 16. She later earned a teaching certificate from Flat River Community College and studied at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, earning most of her credits during the summer while teaching throughout the school year. In later years, she completed her bachelor's degree in education from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee and she later earned a master's degree in education from the same institution.
In the fall of 1952, she began dating Roy Alcorn, also a teacher and a resident of Carter County. They married in October of the following year. In time, they had five children, Martha, Dan, Joseph, Elizabeth and Walter, all of whom survive her. Virgie held the family together as the family grew and as Roy's career took them on many moves, first to Washington,D.C., where he worked as an assistant to Representative A.S.J. Carnahan, then to Williamsville, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Eminence, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Wilmington, Delaware; Chester, Virginia and Roanoke, Virginia, where Roy pursued his higher education and took jobs in school administration. Virgie cared for the children and pursued community and church work.
In April 1973, Roy was killed in a car accident in Nashville, Tennessee, where the family had moved at the time. Left with five children, the youngest of whom was six, Virgie held the family together, finished her bachelor's degree in education at Peabody, and taught school. She then went on to receive her Master's Degree in Education, also while teaching school. In 1980, she took a leave from teaching in Nashville and returned to her hometown of Ellsinore to work as a Vista volunteer for one year. There she helped establish a nutrition center.
When Virgie retired from teaching in Nashville in 1992, she moved back to Ellsinore permanently to be near her extended family and to devote her retirement years to her home community. Over the years, she helped organize a youth center, Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, was instrumental in forming the Carter County Boosters and established the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum. Later, she also donated the land for the Ellsinore Head Start facility. She worked tirelessly to promote her community and for the betterment of others. She was devoted to the area and to its people. She was a member of the Ellsinore Methodist Church. She identified as a Christian and was guided in her life's choices by her faith.
In 1993, she married Earl Evans and they were married until his death from cancer in 1996.
The family would like to thank the staff of Riverways Manor for the care they extended to their mother in her final years and days. Just as Virgie reached out to the community while she could, they reached back to her when she couldn't and gave her their deep affection and love. Carter County was her home, Virgie always said and where she wanted to be; to the end, the staff and other residents of Riverways Manor never let her doubt that this was true.
The family also thanks her niece, Tonya Carter, who stayed by Virgie's side throughout all the hours of her recent stay at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.
She is survived by her brother, Del, by her children, Martha, Dan, Joe, Elizabeth and Walter, by stepson, Don Evans, by stepdaughter, Roxanne Evans Pettit; by her aunt, Viola Boyer Crites, 97; by grandchildren, Jeremy and Amanda Highers, Hannah Alleman, Skylar Doerwaldt, Joseph A. Alcorn, Ryan and Delia Alcorn; by great-grandchildren Kaleb Lewis, Diego Rios, Joaquin Rios, Adrian Lewis and Josephine Alleman; and by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws and other extended family, all of whom she loved.
Visitation will be Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore and Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ellsinore United Methodist Church. Interment will follow at Henson Cemetery.
Family suggests that donations in memory of Virgie be sent to the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum. They should be made out to the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum sent to the Bank of Grandin, 14 North Herren Ave., Ellsinore, MO 63937.
I have shared with so many how very, very grateful I was that around 2012 you took me to visit the very small Seats Family Cemetery near Ellsinore. The weeds were almost sky high, but you had prepared us by having us wear long pants, fleece long-sleeved shirts, work gloves & boots to protect us from possible bugs, spiders and especially snakes! You also came equipped with huge wire cutters to open the gate and weed trimmers to unearth all the tombstones inside that cemetery so I could take pictures to share with others as well as add them to memorials I created for Find a Grave! I owe all the thanks to you, precious Aunt!! I look forward to seeing you again in Heaven some day.
Aunt Virgie's obituary shared the following:
Virgie Lois Carter Alcorn Evans, 90, died July 17, 2021, at Riverways Manor Nursing Home in Van Buren, Missouri, where she had lived for four years since suffering a major stroke in March of 2017. In recent days her health had declined steeply; she had been sent to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center on the Sunday prior to her death, where she was diagnosed with pneumonia. She returned to the nursing home and rallied briefly but declined more as the week went on. At the hour of her death her son Walter was by her side, holding her hand and she died peacefully and without pain.
Virgie Lois Carter was born on November 17, 1930, on Devil's Run in Carter County. She was the oldest child of Willie Cloyd Carter and the former Ova Lea Boyer, who later had four other children, though only three others lived beyond infancy. Virgie is survived by her brother, Del Carter of Gulf Shores, Alabama and Carter County, Missouri. Her other siblings, Joseph (who died as an infant), Lillie and David, preceded her in death.
Virgie began teaching school at Dry Hill School in 1947, at the age of 16. She later earned a teaching certificate from Flat River Community College and studied at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, earning most of her credits during the summer while teaching throughout the school year. In later years, she completed her bachelor's degree in education from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee and she later earned a master's degree in education from the same institution.
In the fall of 1952, she began dating Roy Alcorn, also a teacher and a resident of Carter County. They married in October of the following year. In time, they had five children, Martha, Dan, Joseph, Elizabeth and Walter, all of whom survive her. Virgie held the family together as the family grew and as Roy's career took them on many moves, first to Washington,D.C., where he worked as an assistant to Representative A.S.J. Carnahan, then to Williamsville, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Eminence, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Wilmington, Delaware; Chester, Virginia and Roanoke, Virginia, where Roy pursued his higher education and took jobs in school administration. Virgie cared for the children and pursued community and church work.
In April 1973, Roy was killed in a car accident in Nashville, Tennessee, where the family had moved at the time. Left with five children, the youngest of whom was six, Virgie held the family together, finished her bachelor's degree in education at Peabody, and taught school. She then went on to receive her Master's Degree in Education, also while teaching school. In 1980, she took a leave from teaching in Nashville and returned to her hometown of Ellsinore to work as a Vista volunteer for one year. There she helped establish a nutrition center.
When Virgie retired from teaching in Nashville in 1992, she moved back to Ellsinore permanently to be near her extended family and to devote her retirement years to her home community. Over the years, she helped organize a youth center, Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, was instrumental in forming the Carter County Boosters and established the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum. Later, she also donated the land for the Ellsinore Head Start facility. She worked tirelessly to promote her community and for the betterment of others. She was devoted to the area and to its people. She was a member of the Ellsinore Methodist Church. She identified as a Christian and was guided in her life's choices by her faith.
In 1993, she married Earl Evans and they were married until his death from cancer in 1996.
The family would like to thank the staff of Riverways Manor for the care they extended to their mother in her final years and days. Just as Virgie reached out to the community while she could, they reached back to her when she couldn't and gave her their deep affection and love. Carter County was her home, Virgie always said and where she wanted to be; to the end, the staff and other residents of Riverways Manor never let her doubt that this was true.
The family also thanks her niece, Tonya Carter, who stayed by Virgie's side throughout all the hours of her recent stay at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.
She is survived by her brother, Del, by her children, Martha, Dan, Joe, Elizabeth and Walter, by stepson, Don Evans, by stepdaughter, Roxanne Evans Pettit; by her aunt, Viola Boyer Crites, 97; by grandchildren, Jeremy and Amanda Highers, Hannah Alleman, Skylar Doerwaldt, Joseph A. Alcorn, Ryan and Delia Alcorn; by great-grandchildren Kaleb Lewis, Diego Rios, Joaquin Rios, Adrian Lewis and Josephine Alleman; and by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws and other extended family, all of whom she loved.
Visitation will be Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore and Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ellsinore United Methodist Church. Interment will follow at Henson Cemetery.
Family suggests that donations in memory of Virgie be sent to the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum. They should be made out to the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum sent to the Bank of Grandin, 14 North Herren Ave., Ellsinore, MO 63937.
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