This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2ZB.2ACE/326.1 Message Board Post: Hi, I found nothing in The Dalles Chronicle for Roy Evans who died in 1995. ---------------- The Dalles Weekly Chronicle, The Dalles, OR., July 24, 1947, page 2 “City Briefs” (Daily of July 19) Services Today – Final rites for Mrs. Belle Evans, 76, who died Thursday afternoon of a heart ailment, were conducted at 2 p.m. today at the C.R. Callaway & Son chapel. The Rev. C.F. Losie officiated and committal was in the Dutch flat cemetery. ----------------- The Dalles Weekly Chronicle, The Dalles, OR., July 24, 1947, page 5 MRS. EVANS, 76, CALLED BY DEATH (Daily of July 18) Mrs. Belle Evans, 76, died at her home near The Dalles Tuesday evening. She was born in Nova Scotia April 4, 1871, and had lived in this country of for 64 years. She is survived by her husband, Silas, of The Dalles: five daughters, Mrs. Lou Potts, Stevenson, Wash.; Mrs. Nellie Sauters, Lyle, Wash.; Mrs. Myrtle Cooper, Brightwood, Ore., Mrs. Ellen Bowers, Bend, and Mrs. Effie Oaks, The Dalles; one son, Roy Evans of The Dalles; 17 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Mrs. Evans was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. Funeral services will be at the C.R. Callaway & Son chapel Saturday at 2 p.m. and the Rev. Charles F. Losie officiating. Interment will be in the Dutch Flat cemetery. ------------------ The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, OR., December 2, 1951, page 1 DALLES MAN DIES IN TRUCK PLUNGE Roy Alvin Evans, 55, Rt. 2, The Dalles, died in a local hospital Friday evening of injuries received two hours earlier in an auto accident about three miles west of Lyle on a private road during a driving rain storm. The pickup truck in which Evans was a passenger left the road and plunged down a 50-foot ravine, throwing Evans and his brother-in-law, Erwin Sauter, 60, Lyle, out of the vehicle, according to the Washington state patrol. Evans, critically injured when the truck rolled over him, was rushed by Sauters’s son to a Dalles hospital where he died at 6:15 p.m. Friday. Also taken to the hospital was Sauter, whose condition Saturday was described as satisfactory. Sauter’s left leg was injured and he received lacerations of the right eye. Funeral services for Evans will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Smith Callaway chapel with the Rev. N.A. Sorenson officiating. The Veterans of Foreign Wars will officiate at graveside services with burial at Dutch Flat cemetery. Evans was a lifetime resident of this area, a veteran of World War 1 and was born here Oct. 2, 1896. He is survived by his sisters, Mrs. Erwin Sauter, Lyle; Mrs. Cy Cooper, Winchester Bay, Mrs. Fred Oaks, The Dalles; Mrs. Earl Bowers, Prineville; and Mrs. John Potts, Stevenson, Wash. ----------------- The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, OR., February 14, 1950, page 1 BRIEF ILLNESS FATAL TO MARTIN SILAS EVANS Martin Silas Evans, 81, resident of The Dalles for the past 55 years, died at his home yesterday following a brief illness. He was born June 2, 1868, in Lawrence, Kan. Mr. Evans is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Effie Oaks and Mrs. Myrtle Cooper of The Dalles, Mrs. Lou Potts of Stevenson, Wash., Mrs. Nellie Sauters of Lyle and Mrs. Ellen Bowers of Bend; a son, Roy Evans of The Dalles, and a brother, Charles Evans of Centralia, Wash. Also surviving are 20 grandchildren, 13 great-grand children and two great-great-grandchildren. Time and place for funeral services will be announced later by C.R. Callaway & Son.