Rose Hill Cemetery, Grady County, Oklahoma

© The Chickasha Express-Star
20 December 2000

Evelyn B. [Brown] Clement

A memorial service for Evelyn B. Clement, age 97, of Chickasha, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 20, 2000, at the First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Barbara Hunt will officiate.

Evelyn Clement was born on August 28, 1903, in Gainesville, Texas, to James Walter Brown and Anne A. Manion Brown. She died on Sunday, December 17, 2000, in Chickasha.

Evelyn's family moved to Ada, Oklahoma, where she attended and graduated from Ada High School. She graduated from Eastern Oklahoma State College and received her teaching certificate. Evelyn was chosen by the EOSC football team to be their queen in 1924.

She had teaching assignments in schools at Sapulpa, Duncan and Wilson. At Wilson, she met Joe Clement, teacher and coach, and they were married on October 30, 1927. They moved to Ardmore where Clement became a Boy Scout Executive and Evelyn became a full-time homemaker. They had three children, Joe Randall, John Edward and Jo Ann. During the next several years they moved to Enid, Texarkana and Chickasha as her husband's job required.

After her children left home, she worked at the Dixie Store several years. During World War II, she volunteered as a Red Cross Gray Lady at Borden General Hospital in Chickasha.

Evelyn became a member of the Presbyterian Church in 1930 where she has been involved in many church activities over the years. She was not a "joiner" of many organizations, but she was an avid reader and a seasoned traveler. In her quiet way, she embraced life to its fullest.<

She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and one sister. Her husband, Joe, preceded her in death on September 5, 1977, and one grandson, Benny DeKinder, also preceded her in death on December 5, 1990.<

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Jo Ann and Ben DeKinder of Chickasha; son and daughter-in-law, Rev. John and Rev. Judy Strausz Clement of Rockwell, Illinois; son and daughter-in-law, Joe R. and Lodema Clement of Oklahoma City; brother, Wylie Brown of Tulsa; fourteen grandchildren; twenty-two great grandchildren; seven great great grandchildren.

Private interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery. Services are under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church.