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Evander Evans Chambers III was born on March 13, 1943, and died September 17, 2021, in Enid, Oklahoma. He was born at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio to Dr. E. Evans Chambers II and Virginia Hudson Chambers.
In Enid, Evans attended Taft Elementary School, Emerson Jr. High, and Enid High School from where he graduated in 1961. He also attended Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault, Minnesota.
After graduation, he enrolled at the University of Virginia when it was an all-male college. He became a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity of which his father and son were also members. He later attended Phillips University and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
After the death of his mother, father, and fraternal grandmother in a plane crash in New York City in 1967, Evans returned to Enid. He began studying Law at Oklahoma City University where he received the degree of Juris Doctor in 1974. He became an Assistant District Attorney for Grant, Garfield, Kingfisher, Canadian and Blaine Counties.
In 1975 Evans and Judy Ann Stephenson were married in Aspen, Colorado. Their daughter Virginia (Ginny) Hudson Chambers was born in 1980.
Evans entered private practice in 1982. His son Evander Evans Chambers IV was born in 1984. Evans practiced criminal law until his retirement in 2019. He served on the board of the Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association for many years. He received the Thurgood Marshall Award in 2002.
His love of the outdoors included snow skiing, fly fishing, horseback riding, and hunting. He fulfilled his lifelong dream of going on safari in South Africa.
Evans was a member of the Grand National Quail Club, which his father founded in 1967, for over fifty years. He served as President in 1985 and received the Hall of Fame Award in 2002. He especially enjoyed serving chuck wagon lunches to the hunters at his tipis (tepees) on the ranch. Many of the hunters from all over the country became lifelong friends.
Evans was also a member of the Wyoming One Shot Antelope Hunt, One Box Pheasant Hunt in Nebraska, Grand National Waterfowl Hunt in Maryland, The Dallas Safari Club, and Safari Club International.
He was a student of Oklahoma, American and Native American history. He was very proud to be a voting member of the Cherokee Nation. He acquired many Native American artifacts and jewelry on trips to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Evans was a member of the First Presbyterian Church where he served as a Deacon and an Elder.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Dr and Mrs Evans Chambers II, grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. F.A. Hudson, Dr. Claude Starr Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Capshaw, his baby sister Jan, and his beloved sister Dana.
Evans is survived by his wife, Judy, his daughter Ginny, and his son Evans IV.
He was a loving husband, wonderful father, steadfastly loyal to his family’s legacy and true to his friends. He will be sorely missed, forever in our hearts and definitely one of a kind. We will love you always.
A private memorial will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Grand National Quail Foundation, Inc., with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
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