Richard M. Evans 1933-1998

EVANS TOFT HADDOCK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/25/2012 at 10:17:57

3 April 1998

Richard M. Evans, 64, of Casselberry, Fla., formerly of Sioux City, died Monday, March 30, 1998, in Chicago, Ill., following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Christy, Smith and Hockenberry Funeral Home, with the Rev. William H. Steward, pastor at Grace United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Willow Township Cemetery at Holly Springs, Iowa, with military rites. Visitation will be from 3 to 8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Evans was born Aug. 8, 1933, in Mason City, Iowa, the son of Marlowe and Dorothy (Toft) Evans. He graduated from Morningside College in 1959 and received his educational degree from Northern Illinois University in 1968. He served in the U.S., Marine Corps and flew helicopters in Japan. He was in command of the largest formal school in the Marine Corps, the Marine Corps Communication Electronics School.

He married Marilyn Haddock on June 1, 1958, in Hornick, Iowa. She died in 1978, in Sioux City.
Following his military career and college, he lived in Chicago for seven years and moved to Houston, Texas for two years. He moved to Sioux City in 1971 and to Twenty Nine Palms, Calif. in 1979. He moved to Orlando, Fla., then to Carmel and Monteray, Calif. He retired in 1994 and moved back to Orlando.

He flew helicopters for Chicago Helicopter Airways. He taught Educational Psychology at the University of Houston, the University of Northern Illinois and was a professor at Mornigside College for eight years, where he received the Teacher of the Year award in 1977. He worked for the Marine Corps and the Department of Defense for eight years at Twenty Nine Palms, Orlando and Monteray. He was a visiting professor at the U.S. Navel Academy. Most recently, he was the director of Public Relations for the Orlando Symphony Orchestra.

He was a member of the University Unitarian Universalist Church in Orlando.

Survivors include a son, Jay Bruce of Evanston, Ill.; a daughter and her husband, Gwendoyn "Wendy" Evans and Larry Glazier of Evanston; his mother of Sioux City; a sister, Janet Riley of Sioux Falls, S.D.; and a brother, Fred C. Evans of Bonn, Germany.

He was preceded in death by his father.
Memorials in his name may be directed in care of the family.