Mirtie Norene Evans, 83, the daughter of Thomas Presley and Lena Pearl (Smith) Sanders, was born Nov. 12, 1919, in Watson, OK, and passed from this life on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003, in the Community Springs Nursing Home, El Dorado Springs.
Mirtie attended school in Oklahoma and worked on the family farm while growing up. In the early 1950s she moved to the Kansas City area to look for work and to be near her brother, Richard, who was living and working in the area.
For many years she worked at Joe's Cafe at 38th and Wyandotte until her retirement. On March 8, 1958, she was united in marriage to Elmer Crocket Evans in Kansas City. In 1988 they relocated to El Dorado Springs to be near family.
Mirtie was a member of the Park Street Christian Church. Her hobbies included gardening, flowers and crocheting.
Mirtie was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and two sisters.
Survivors include her husband, Elmer Crocket Evans - of the home in El Dorado Springs; one daughter, Lucille Hoagland, and
her husband-Johnny - Schell City; two sisters, Onie (Jackie) Moore - Gravette, AR, and Evelyn Fisher and her husband-George - Tonganoxie, KS; one grandson, John Mitchell Hoagland, and his wife-Jeanne - Schell City; two granddaughters, Mary Kathleen Ambrose and her husband-Greg - Lee's Summit, and Julie Ann Wilson and her husband-Kurt - Nevada; six great-grandchildren - Jesse Lee Beaty, Jenna LeAnn Beaty, Spencer Blaine Hoagland, Drue Cawood Hoagland, Grant Douglas Wilson and Blair Elizabeth Wilson; nieces; nephews and other relatives and friends.
Services were held Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home, Schell City, with Bro. Howard McPeak officiating. Music was provided by Sharon Goodman and Diane Eslinger. Pallbearers were John M. Hoagland, Drue Hoagland, Kurt Wilson, Grant Wilson, Greg Ambrose and Jesse Beaty. Interment was in the Green Lawn Cemetery, Schell City under direction of the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home.
Memorials are suggested to the youth group at the Schell City Christian Church in care of the funeral home.
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