Homer E. Evans

© The Enid OK Events

11-07-1941

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

1866 - November 6, 1941

Evans – Rites for Homer E. Evans, former Garfield County undersheriff, Deputy County Clerk and more recently city clerk, where held in the First Methodist Church Saturday afternoon. Rev. Fletcher S. Crowe and Rev. Roscoe A. Barnes, minister and associate minister of the church, officiated and burial was in Enid Cemetery. Brown Funeral Home was in charge.

Evans, 75, died Thursday morning at the home of his son, Merrick M. Evans of Ponca City, where he had been receiving treatment for a throat ailment for the past few weeks.

He was undersheriff during the term of Ellsworth Hume more than 20 years ago and with Charles Baker for six years. For four years he was Deputy County Clerk under Charles W. Bitton, and served for four years as city clerk under former Mayor John Allen's administration. For many years he was County chairman of the Republican organization and at one time was Secretary. One of Enid's pioneer resident, he came from Springfield, Ohio.

Mr. Evans left shortly after his term as city clerk for Chicago for treatment of a throat ailment and had returned to Enid only a short time before going to Ponca City.

Pallbearers at the funeral were Paul Russell, Percy Porter, Judge Paul Edwards, Joe Ash, Roland Major, and Lee Cromwell.

Surviving him are his wife; a son, Merrick M. Evans, of Ponca City; a daughter, Mrs. Douglas Hall of Chicago; two brothers, William L. Evans of Tulsa and Doctor Charles W. Evans of Springfield, Ohio, and three grandchildren.

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