Major County, Oklahoma

Evelyn Sue Koehn
© Fairview Funeral Home Inc.
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Evelyn Sue Koehn
November 27, 1949 - February 23, 2024

Funeral services for Evelyn Sue Koehn, 74, of Fairview, Oklahoma, will be 10:30 am, Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at the Church of God in Christ Mennonite with burial in the Cedar Cemetery. Arrangements by Fairview Funeral Home Inc.

Evelyn Sue Nightingale Koehn was born to Richard and Martha Jantz Nightingale on November 27, 1949. She passed away at home on February 23, 2024, reaching the age of 74 years. Evelyn spent much of her childhood years on the family farm west of Fairview, Oklahoma. As a girl she loved to be outdoors, choring with her brothers, milking cows, and helping in the cotton field.

Her education began at the Dane schoolhouse on highway 60 west of Fairview, and she finished her schooling in Fairview. Evelyn was baptized into the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite at Fairview by Minister Dan Smith on December 17, 1962. Her youth life was a joy to her, and she loved making friends.

On October 5, 1969, Evelyn married Jerald Koehn, and they began their married life as house parents in a boys' unit in Blacksburg, Virginia. She always said she learned to cook there, and her cornbread and gravy are still remembered by some of those boys. Returning home from their service there, Jerald and Evelyn established their home ten miles west of Fairview on a corner of her father's land, and they shared 52 years of marriage there. Two daughters, Kathy and Stacey, were born to them. We girls fondly remember the many hours Mom would spend with us playing games and reading books. She loved to make our birthdays special, with big meals and decorated cakes. Mom was a hard worker and spent much time in the garden, in the watermelon patch, and in the kitchen canning and putting up produce. Evelyn was a very unselfish person. Throughout her life, her first thought was so often of others. Never a complainer, her resilient spirit always seemed to accept whatever life brought. Even through health adversities the last few years, as well as Jerald's difficult passing two years ago, Evelyn remained courageous, her love of life evident until the very end. In the last few days, she expressed her desire to enjoy her grandchildren and continue to watch them grow up, and yet she so quietly accepted it as she realized this was not to be. Evelyn left us with a clear testimony of her peace with God.

Left with a lifetime of memories are her daughters, Kathy Koehn of Fairview, and Stacey and Kent Wadel of Greensburg, Kansas; four grandchildren, Tonya, Sharla, Jamen, and Mindi Wadel; brother Loyd and Janet Nightingale of Plains, Kansas; sister Ruthie Nightingale of Montezuma, Kansas; sisters-in-law Kathy Nightingale of Fairview, and Linda Meister of Ringwood, Oklahoma; brother-in-law Maynard and Janice Koehn of Isabella, Oklahoma; a special aunt Elsie Koehn of Enid, Oklahoma; and many nieces and nephews.

Evelyn was preceded in death by her husband Jerald, her parents, parents-in-law, a brother Roy Nightingale, an infant sister, brother-in-law Doug Meister, and two nephews, James Nightingale and Matthew Meister.

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