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Geneva Deloris Evans was born May 19, 1930, in Enid, Okla., to David Lee and Treva Dell (Barnes) Hale. She passed from this life to be with the Lord on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010, at age 79.
She was living at Summit Living Center, Okeene.She grew up in Enid. She was a telephone operator in Homestead. She worked as a sales clerk for C.R. Anthony's in Alva and as a seamstress. Geneva worked for the state of Kansas at the Port of Entry at Hardtner, Kan. She retired as the dietician supervisor at Parkview Home in Macksville, Kan.
Geneva loved art and painting. She taught art classes with J.N. Hayward in Alva. She painted signs, portraits and landscapes as a business. A mural she painted on a building in a Hardtner, Kan., park was featured in a Kansas tourism book. She signed her works with the name "Cherokee," a name derived from her heritage.
She married Robert "Bob" Hays May 17, 1946. He died June 23, 1983. Geneva married David Evans in 1994 in Belpre, Kan. He died March 25, 2006.
She is survived by one son, Harold Hays of Kelso, Wash.; two daughters, Connie Sprunger and husband John of Canton and Brenda Seiger and husband Glenn of Coos Bay, Ore.; eight grandchildren, Harold Scott Hays and wife Carol, Melissa Conrady and husband Steve, Alan McKinley and wife Melanie, Amy Bonura and husband Claude, Heather Murray, Suzanne McVicker and husband Terry, Melody Trattner and Chris Seiger; 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. She is survived by one brother, David Hale and wife Willie of Grove, Okla.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brother, Gerald Hale; and sister, Loretta Weber.
Geneva's final resting place will be on family property in the coastal mountains near Coos Bay, Ore.
Arrangements are by Haigler-Pierce Funeral Home, Canton.
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