Polk County

Miss Miriam Evans

 

Miss Miriam Evans, former hostess at Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, arrived Sunday morning from San Francisco, Cal., where she was accepted as a Red Cross recreational worked, to visit with her father, Homer Evans, 1109 Twenty-eighth st. She is leaving today to spend a few days with her sister, Lieut. Charlotta Evans of the WAC at Duluth, Minn. The two will return to Des Moines Dec 24. Lieutenant Evans will return to Duluth Christmas night, and Miss Evans will leave for Washington D.C., to begin training for overseas duty.

Source: The DesMoines Register, December 16, 1943

Miss Miriam Evans, who spent Christmas with her father, Homer Evans, 1109 Twenty-eighth st., today is en route to Washington, D.C., to be in training for overseas duty as recreational worker with the American Red Cross.

Source: The DesMoines Register, December 26, 1943 (photo included)

Des Moines in the Services

Miriam Evans, daughter of Homer Evans, 1109 Twenty-eighth st., has arrived in England to serves as a American Red Cross hospital staff aide. She is a graduate of Drake university.

Source: The DesMoines Tribune, April 24, 1944 (photo included)

Miss Charlotta Evans, formerly of Des Moines, has concluded a visit with Misses Alice Boyer and Margaret Brick, 848 Twenty -ninth st and has left for the east. She will sail July 1 from Quebec, Canada, for the island of Texel in The Netherlands, where she will work with the international council of the World Service Student organization.

Miss Evans will return in time to be enrolled for the fall semester at the University of Chicago, where she will completed her last semester for an M.A. degree.

During the summer she will visit her sister, Miss Miriam Evans, formerly of Des Moines, who has been employed by the U.S. government for the last three years in Wetzlar, Germany.

Source: The DesMoines Register, June 20, 1948