May 29, 1928 - August 09, 2020
The Memorial Service Celebrating and Honoring the life of Ruby Jeraldine Evans, 92, of Enid, will be held 1:00 P.M. Saturday August 15, 2020 in the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Gene Spillman officiating. Services and complete cremation care are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
Jeraldine was born May 29, 1928 to Cecil and Ruby Smith in Manchester, Oklahoma, and passed from this life August 9, 2020, in Enid.
She was raised in Manchester, Oklahoma. Her family relocated to California during the dust bowl and returned to Wakita, Oklahoma where she graduated from Wakita High School with the class of 1946. On June 6, 1953 Jeraldine married Marshall “Jim” Evans.
She worked on the family farm for many years, and later began working at the Wakita Nursing Home where she was a Dietitian until her retirement. She also worked for the Wakita Ambulance Service as a Licensed EMT. A very civic minded person she was a member of the United Methodist Church of Wakita, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. She served on the Wakita Town board and was a former woman of the year in Wakita.
Jeraldine was very talented and spent a lot of her time sewing and crocheting beautiful keepsakes for her friends and family. She loved cooking, watching Hallmark movies and spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is survived by her children: Dorothy and Phil Ransom, of Wakita, Jack and Ann Harlow of Woodward, James and Rose Evans of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, Marsha and Greg Kaupke, of Enid; thirteen grandchildren; twenty five great-grandchildren; and thirteen great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her sister, parents, one granddaughter, and one great-grandson.
Memorials may be given in her name to the Wakita Cemetery or the Methodist Church of Wakita with Brown-Cummings Funeral home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made to the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com. As one of Oklahomaʼs oldest single family owned and operated providers of funerals and cremations, Brown-Cummings is the name families have turned to for generations. They fully understand the honor and responsibility entrusted to them to preserve the story of oneʼs life. Visit 400 W. Maple, Enid, OK 73701. Call: (580) 237-5432.
Obituaries are posted, in part, due to the generosity of The Commons.
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