DAVID J. EVANS
DAVID JAMES EVANS OF POTOSI, MISSOURI WAS BORN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1924 IN POTOSI, MISSOURI AS SON OF THE LATE CALEB D. AND NORAH M. (ROUSSIAN) EVANS. DAVID DIED FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1999 AT THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY- FOUR YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND TWO DAYS.
DAVID WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO VIOLET B. PITTMAN ON OCTOBER 19, 1976 IN SILVER MINES, MISSOURI.
DAVID IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, VIOLET B. EVANS OF POTOSI, FOUR STEP SONS, ROBERT FITZGERALD AND WIFE INA OF IRONDALE, JERRY FITZGERALD OF POTTSTOWN, PA., BURL PORTELL AND BARBARA PORTELL OF POTOSI, BILLY GENE PORTELL OF POTOSI; ONE STEP DAUGHTER, RUTH ANN SODERBLOM OF POTOSI; SEVERAL STEP GRANDCHILDREN; ONE BROTHER, THOMAS B. EVANS AND WIFE IRENE OF POTOSI; ONE SISTER, MARY A. PUCKETT AND HUSBAND HARRY OF POTOSI AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS, DAVID WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER, JAMES E. COLLINS AND ONE INFANT SISTER, MARGARET JANE EVANS.
PRIOR TO DAVID'S RETIREMENT HE WAS EMPLOYED BY PEA RIDGE MINE FOR SOME FIFTEEN YEARS. DAVID OWNED AND OPERATED "EAST END CAFE" IN POTOSI FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
DAVID WAS A OUTDOORS MAN AND LOVED THE GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE, HE ENJOYED TROUT FISHING AND MUSHROOM HUNTING. HE ENJOYED TRAVELING WHEN HE COULD.
VISITATION WAS HELD SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1999, AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN PLEASANT HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, KEN CARL, ALLEN SHEPARD, DONALD PITTMAN, ED ROWE, FLOYD ROWE, ARTHUR EVANS, DON MCCOURTNEY AND DAVID PORTELL.