Bert A, Evans (1880-1943)

EVANS, SOUTHWICK, JOHNSON, BARTLETT, COX

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/20/2014 at 17:49:36

From Nevada Evening Journal February 1943

Bert Evans, Longtime Nevada Barber Dies at Home Here

Bert Evans, 69, for over forty years a barber in Nevada, died at his home 1329 Fifth street, Friday noon [February 19, 1945], after a lingering illness.

Mr. Evans was compelled to retire from work about two years ago and since that time his health had been failing and the death was not unexpected.

Funeral rites are still undetermined, pending definite word from the members of the family, many of them in California.

During the over two-score years that Mr. Evans had lived in Nevada and raised a large family, he had been held in the highest of esteem by the people of the community.

The father of thirteen children, 11 of whom survive him, and included in which were several sons who have been outstanding athletes in the Nevada school, the name of Evans has been a prominent one in the high school athletic circles over Iowa for many years. He was a kind and devoted husband and father and responsible citizen.

Bert Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Evans, was born on a farm near Indianola January 27, 1880. The family later moved to Maxwell, where the young man learned the barber trade and where he was married on January 15, 1901, to Miss Daisy Southwick.

A year later, or in February, 1902, Mr. Evans bought a barber shop in Nevada and this became the family home and it was here that heir large family of children was born and raised. For the greater portion of that time their home had been in the Fifth street residence where he spent his declining days and where he died.

Two of the thirteen children died while very young and those, who with the wife and mother survive, are Helen, now Mrs. Lyle Johnson, of Birmingham, Alabama; Thelma, now Mrs. Charles Bartlett of San Diego, Calif.; Joseph Evans of Long Beach, Calif.; James Evans of San Diego, Calif.; Bert Evans Jr. of Long Beach, Calif.; Vivian, now Mrs. Charles Cox of Ames; Charles Evans of Los Angeles, Calif.; Robert Evans of Nevada, Constance Evans of San Diego, Calif.; Bill Evans of Nevada, now a student at Drake University, Des Moines; and Frank Evans at home.

While several of the children have been able to be at home occasionally and assist the mother in the care of the father, the sons Robert and Frank have been with her practically all ot the time and...