Evanell Maude (Walker) Whitworth (2017)
WHITWORTH, WALKER, NEELY, DEVLIN, HAMILTON, PRICE, SHORE, BUCKINGHAM
Posted By: Shirley Keating (email)
Date: 1/28/2017 at 18:31:58
McCalley-Collins Funeral Home
Winterset, IowaEvanell Whitworth
Evanell Maude Walker Whitworth, 95, of Winterset, Iowa, died Friday, January 27, 2017 at the Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset. Funeral services will be held 1:00 PM Tuesday, January 31, 2017, at the First United Methodist Church in Winterset with Rev. Dr. Ronald Yarnell officiating. Burial will be in the Moon Cemetery at Macksburg, Iowa.
Evanell was born on November 20, 1921, at Barnard, Missouri to Wilson and Effie May (Neely) Walker. She grew up in the Barnard and Maryville, Mo area and graduated from Horace Mann High School in Maryville. She went on to graduate for Northwest State College in Maryville. On June 12, 1951 Evanell was united in marriage to Arthur Brown Whitworth at Maryville, MO.
They moved to the Macksburg, IA area around 1951 and in 1958 moved to Winterset. Evanell had taught many years for the Winterset Community School District. She had been a member of the First United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Eastern Star, and Pythian Sisters. She enjoyed reading, word search puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, and her family.
Evanell is survived by her daughters, Ilene Devlin of San Antonio, TX and Elaine Hamilton of Drexel, MO; grandchildren, Erica (Chad) Price, Amanda (Mark) Shore, and Crystal (Jeff) Buckingham; great grandchildren, Christian and Cameron Price, Josie and Mason Shore, and Lauren and Jonathan Buckingham.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Wilson and Effie May (Neely) Walker; husband, Arthur Whitworth; brothers, Roy Douglas Walker, John Wilson Walker, Merle Alford Walker, and Orla Omar Walker; and sister, Mary Fern Walker.
Visitation will be Monday from noon to 8 PM at McCalley-Collins Funeral Home with family receiving friends from 5 to 7 PM. Memorials given to the family will be directed to First United Methodist Church or Lillard-Miller Scholarship Fund.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by McCalley-Collins Funeral Home in Winterset.
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