Evans, Walter Bennett 1868 - 1905

EVANS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:23

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Apr. 14, 1905, FP, C6

B. R. Evans received a telegram Wednesday that his son Walter had passed away the day previously, the 11th. He died at Los Angeles, where he has been at work collecting for two years, and at which he was employed until about three weeks before his death. His brother Hugh, of San Jose, California was with him at the time of his death and for two weeks previous thereto. The deceased was a graduate of the Cresco High School and of the law department of the Michigan State University, being a class mate in the law school of E. A. Church of this place. He was about 36 years of age. The remains will be brought to Cresco for interment.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Apr. 25, 1905, LP, C4

OBITUARY.
EVANS:
Walter Bennett Evans was born in Fox Lake, Wis., May 16, 1868, and moved with his parents to Iowa when two years of age and settled on a farm 3½ miles north of Cresco where he lived for ten years, when the family moved to Cresco to give the children the advantages to be had in the public schools which he entered and pursued his studies with such success that he graduated from the High School with the class of 1888. He taught several terms in the district schools of the county, and then entered upon the study of law, graduating from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1892, and in the fall of the same year entered the offices of one of the prominent law firms of Minneapolis where he remained until after he had been admitted to the Minnesota bar. Later he opened offices and established a practice in Minneapolis for himself, and met with considerable success until failing health and an operation for appendicitis compelled him to discontinue his office work in 1897, and he accepted a position as traveling collector.
In January of 1902 he went to Phoenix, Arizona, and spent the winter with his brother Hugh and in the spring following he went to Los Angeles, California, where he died April 11, 1905, aged 36 years, 10 months and 26 days.
He leaves a father and mother, two brothers and three sisters and a host of devoted friends.
The funeral was held Friday afternoon from the M. E. church, of which the deceased was a member, uniting with them during the pastorate of Rev. J. D. Tull. Rev. John Gammons officiated and appropriate music was touchingly rendered by a selected choir. Six schoolmate friends of the deceased acted as pall bearers. The exquisite floral tributes and the large attendance of sympathizing friends and acquaintances spoke mutely eloquent of the high regard in which the deceased was held in the community of which he had been a part. The interment was in the family plat In Oak Lawn.
Walter Evans was a young man of excellent habits, of high ambitions and was possessed of an honest and upright character which made him respected by all who knew him, and his genial nature always made him a host of friends among schoolmates, acquaintances and business men. The family have the sympathy of all in their bereavement.

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