Maxine Ethel Evans (2002)

ARMES, CLAREMONT, EVANS, HIGGINS, JUERGENSEN, MCCOLLOM, RYNEARSON, SLOAN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:23

The Jefferson Herald
Jefferson, Iowa
Thursday, February 28, 2002
Page 3, Column 3

Funeral services were held Monday, Feb. 25, at Brown Funeral Home in Jefferson for Maxine Ethel Evans, 83, of CLC-Jefferson Manor in Jefferson.

Pastor David Tripp officiated. Roger Blanchfield was soloist, with Erma Juergensen as organist. Honorary casket bearers were Dan, Devlin and Trevor Sloan, Jason Higgins and Joel Peters.

Casket bearers were Mike Christensen, Tom Posusta, Don Wilson, Mark Jass, Lewis Nedved and Don Rynearson. Interment was in Berwick Cemetery.

Maxine Evans, the daughter of David and Emma (Armes) Evans, was born Nov. 19, 1918, at Winterset. She died Feb. 19, 2002, at CLC-Jefferson Manor in Jefferson.

Maxine was raised in the Winterset area and attended country school in Madison county. When she was in junior high school her family moved to Des Moines where she graduated from North High School. While in high school she was active in the marching band.

Maxine attended nurses’ training at the Seventh Day Adventist Church Hospitals in Hazen and Beulah, ND. Midway through her training her father died, and Maxine’s mother wanted to live close to her daughter Norene and her spouse Diamond Sloan in California. Maxine left nursing school and moved with her mother to California where Maxine worked in a bakery.

A year and a half later her mother died and Maxine returned to nurses’ training in North Dakota. She earned her LPN in 1946. While in nurses’ training she met Margaret Johnson, who would become a lifelong friend and with whom Maxine would later share a home.

After nurses’ training Maxine worked at Iowa Lutheran Hospital, Kenny Cottage and the Iowa Convalescent Home for Children in Des Moines for a number of years.

Maxine and Margaret Johnson together moved to Ogden, UT, where they worked in a hospital. They later worked in hospitals in Delano and Lodi, CA, and in Bloomer and Superior, WI.

Maxine retired in 1970 from nursing. She became a resident of Panora Nursing Home in 1997 and came to CLC-Jefferson Manor in 1998.

While in high school Maxine became a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and remained a member. She was also a member of the Sons of Norway and T.O.P.S. She gave painting lessons.

Survivors include nieces Betty Juergensen and husband Carl of Churdan, Eillene Claremont of Nashville, TN, Jean Higgins, of Bagley, and Pearl McCollom and husband Ken of Waterloo; a nephew, Dan Sloan and wife Diane of Fountain Valley, CA; and special friends Margaret Johnson of Two Harbors, MN, and Gladys Mairs of Wahpeton, ND.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Norene Sloan and Thelma Rynearson; and a brother in infancy.

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