Dorothy Toft Evans 1907-2012

TOFT EVANS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/6/2012 at 13:06:26

Sioux City Journal
March 15, 2012

Dorothy Toft Evans, 104, of Sioux City died March 12, 2012, at Countryside Nursing and Rehab in Sioux City.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. Harold Werley officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery next to her husband. Visitation with the family present will be after services Friday at the Christy-Smith Resource Center.

Dorothy was born on Flag Day (June 14), 1907, in Stanley, Wis. She graduated with a music major from Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.

She taught piano for many years in Mason City, Iowa, and Sioux City. She loved to travel, having her first adventures during her college summers working in Yellowstone National Park. Dorothy later discovered her Norwegian roots visiting Oslo and parts of that country. The highlight of that trip included hearing Edvard Grieg's music on his piano at his Bergen Fjord home. She toured by auto throughout England, Germany, Holland, Austria and Italy. As a result of her travels in Norway, she took up Norwegian Rose Painting, studying with Lill Lund, and at the Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, Iowa.

Dorothy was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, the Sons of Norway and the Piano Practice Club that she helped form when she lived in Mason City.

Survivors include a daughter, Janet Evans Riley, and grandchildren Michael, David and Elizabeth Riley of Houston, Texas; a son, Fred Evans of Stanley, and grandchildren Jay and Natalie Evans of Birmingham, Ala., and Wendy Evans Glazier of Elburn, Ill., who played Mrs. Evans' choice "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on the violin along with her husband, Larry Glazier, on the cello.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Marlowe Evans; her sister, Eleanor Eimermann; two brothers, John Toft and Lawrence Toft; and her son, Richard Evans.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Stanley Area Historical Society, 228 Helgerson St., Stanley, WI 54768.