October 26, 1995

ARAIE EVANS

MARSTON -- Araie Evans, 95, died Sunday, Oct. 22, 1995, at her home in Marston. She was born March 31, 1900, at Dyersburg, Tenn., daughter of Ollie and Allie Beth Fitzgerald Johnson. She was a member of the Lily of the Valley Freewill Baptist Church at Point Pleasant and the mother board there. Evans was a resident of Missouri for 80 years...

MARSTON -- Araie Evans, 95, died Sunday, Oct. 22, 1995, at her home in Marston.

She was born March 31, 1900, at Dyersburg, Tenn., daughter of Ollie and Allie Beth Fitzgerald Johnson.

She was a member of the Lily of the Valley Freewill Baptist Church at Point Pleasant and the mother board there. Evans was a resident of Missouri for 80 years.

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Survivors include a son, Willie Evans of St. Louis; four daughters, Bertha Williams of Marston, and Goldie Mosley, Julia and Louise Evans, all of St. Louis; and 48 grandchildren.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Williams-Farr and Purnell Funeral Home in Howardville.

Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Good Hope Baptist Church. Burial will be at the Mason Cemetery in Point Pleasant.

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