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Dawnelle Marie Evans Feller was born to Alvin Leroy and Ruby Kathleen (Tilley) Evans on March 13,1951 at Sioux Falls, SD. She entered her eternal home in heaven after a long battle with Multiple Myeloma Cancer on April 12, 2023 while under Guardian Hospice care at Four Season’s Nursing home, Durant, OK with family keeping vigil during her last hours.
Her early childhood was spent learning rural farm-life in Ree Heights and Miller, SD. During high school, she and her mother moved to California where she graduated from Valencia High School in Placentia, California. Dawnelle married John Feller in 1976 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
While living in California she worked as a nurse’s aide, an office clerk at Farmers Insurance Company, later in property management positions until making a move to Columbia, Missouri and then to West Plains, Missouri. There she worked a combined total of ten years as a cashier for Walmart. In 2022, a move to Durant, Oklahoma brought her close to family again.
She loved Jesus, country western music, line and 2 step dancing, her nephew’s and Elvis Presley’s singing, a couple of precious dogs, making and eating her special spaghetti recipe and drinking diet Coke. Dawnelle valued her family highly and always enjoyed involvement in their lives, especially the nieces and nephews. She had many friends, and once a friend, you were her faithful friend for life.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband John; a sister Colleen (Evans) Pettit Koeck; a brother Alvin (Butch) Evans Jr.; nephew Michael Pettit; brothers-in-law Jim Pettit and Don Koeck; sister-in-law Pat (Pettit) Evans; and great-nephews Greg Nolz and Alex Pettit.
Dawnelle is survived by a sister Ramona (Evans) and Bruce Wanger Sr. of Durant, Oklahoma; a brother Tom Evans of Ardmore, Oklahoma; brother Ron Jones of Brooktondale, New York; stepbrother David Blachford of Miller, South Dakota; a stepson John Feller Jr. of Madisonville, Kentucky; nephews: Bruce Wanger Jr., Paul Pettit, Johnny Koeck, Kyle Evans, Cliff Willingham; nieces: Anna (Pettit) Nolz, Carmen (Wanger) Howard, Kris Evans, Leah Pickett Evans, Karey (Evans) Barnard; a sister-in-law Charlotte (Schock) Evans. She will also leave behind several great nieces and nephews, cousins and many friends who will forever remember and miss her.
A Celebration of Life will be held on June 2, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. at Fairview Baptist Church of Durant with Pastor Bill Ledbetter officiating.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be made to Samaritan's
Purse at
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/,
Gideon International at
https://www.gideons.org/donate, or to the Multiple Myeloma Research
Foundation at
http://www.themmrf.org/.
Services are under the direction of Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral Home, 121 North 5th Street, Durant, Oklahoma 74701. www.holmescoffeymurray.com
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