The Shreveport (La) Times (Apr. 1, 1953)
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Funeral services for Elmo Clyde Evans, 71, of 2816 1/2 Catherine street, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Osborn chapel. Officiating ministers will be the Rev. Stanley Jordan, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist church, and the Rev. A.W. Townsend, Jr., pastor of the Mangum Methodist Memorial church.
Evans, a school patrolman for the Shreveport police traffic department, died at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in a local hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage after a short illness. For four or five years, he had been a school patrolman at the Jewella school.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clara Fort Evans; one son, Maj. John J. Evans, of Barksdale Air Force base; three daughters, Miss Margaret Evans, Bossier City, Mrs. T.V. Jones and Mrs. J.M. Robinson both of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. Alberde Lawler of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. T.M. Goodnight, Breckenridge, Texas; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Forest Park cemetery. The body will remain at Osborn chapel until the hour of services.
Pallbearers will be T.M. Goodnight, Ernest Fort, Thomas Fort, Robert Robinson, Claude Bookter, James Cathey, Jr., J.W. Joiner, and Eugene Stephenson.
Rites Today
For School
Patrolman
Funeral services for Elmo Clyde Evans, 71, of 2816 1/2 Catherine street, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Osborn chapel. Officiating ministers will be the Rev. Stanley Jordan, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist church, and the Rev. A.W. Townsend, Jr., pastor of the Mangum Methodist Memorial church.
Evans, a school patrolman for the Shreveport police traffic department, died at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in a local hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage after a short illness. For four or five years, he had been a school patrolman at the Jewella school.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clara Fort Evans; one son, Maj. John J. Evans, of Barksdale Air Force base; three daughters, Miss Margaret Evans, Bossier City, Mrs. T.V. Jones and Mrs. J.M. Robinson both of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. Alberde Lawler of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. T.M. Goodnight, Breckenridge, Texas; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Forest Park cemetery. The body will remain at Osborn chapel until the hour of services.
Pallbearers will be T.M. Goodnight, Ernest Fort, Thomas Fort, Robert Robinson, Claude Bookter, James Cathey, Jr., J.W. Joiner, and Eugene Stephenson.
The Shreveport (La) Times (Apr. 1, 1953)
Rites Today
For School
Patrolman
Funeral services for Elmo Clyde Evans, 71, of 2816 1/2 Catherine street, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Osborn chapel. Officiating ministers will be the Rev. Stanley Jordan, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist church, and the Rev. A.W. Townsend, Jr., pastor of the Mangum Methodist Memorial church.
Evans, a school patrolman for the Shreveport police traffic department, died at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in a local hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage after a short illness. For four or five years, he had been a school patrolman at the Jewella school.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clara Fort Evans; one son, Maj. John J. Evans, of Barksdale Air Force base; three daughters, Miss Margaret Evans, Bossier City, Mrs. T.V. Jones and Mrs. J.M. Robinson both of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. Alberde Lawler of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. T.M. Goodnight, Breckenridge, Texas; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Forest Park cemetery. The body will remain at Osborn chapel until the hour of services.
Pallbearers will be T.M. Goodnight, Ernest Fort, Thomas Fort, Robert Robinson, Claude Bookter, James Cathey, Jr., J.W. Joiner, and Eugene Stephenson.
Rites Today
For School
Patrolman
Funeral services for Elmo Clyde Evans, 71, of 2816 1/2 Catherine street, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Osborn chapel. Officiating ministers will be the Rev. Stanley Jordan, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist church, and the Rev. A.W. Townsend, Jr., pastor of the Mangum Methodist Memorial church.
Evans, a school patrolman for the Shreveport police traffic department, died at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in a local hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage after a short illness. For four or five years, he had been a school patrolman at the Jewella school.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clara Fort Evans; one son, Maj. John J. Evans, of Barksdale Air Force base; three daughters, Miss Margaret Evans, Bossier City, Mrs. T.V. Jones and Mrs. J.M. Robinson both of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. Alberde Lawler of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. T.M. Goodnight, Breckenridge, Texas; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Forest Park cemetery. The body will remain at Osborn chapel until the hour of services.
Pallbearers will be T.M. Goodnight, Ernest Fort, Thomas Fort, Robert Robinson, Claude Bookter, James Cathey, Jr., J.W. Joiner, and Eugene Stephenson.
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