ROBERT EVANS

Funeral service for Robert C. Evans of Eldon and Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Elmwood Family Farm. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum.

Friends may call at Phillips Funeral Home in Eldon from 4-7 p.m. today, and at Elmwood from 4-8 p.m. Friday.

Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Evans, 84, died Monday, May 12, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center.

He was born April 14, 1913, in Kankakee, Ill., son of Sylvester and Francis Childs Evans. He and Mary Frissell were married June 6, 1942, in Ft. Riley, Kan. She died Aug. 25, 1991.

Evans was a 1935 graduate of the University of Illinois. He served in the horse cavalry from 1935-37, in the U.S. Air Corps until 1945, and retired in 1955 as a lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army Reserve.

Prior to entering the military he was manager of Firestone Tire Co. in Cape Girardeau, and after leaving the service he was general manager at Ford Groves Motor Co.

Evans owned the Ford dealership in Eldon from 1952-1979. He bought the Bank of Eldon in 1958 and a number of years later sold it to Mercantile Bank. He was president of the bank until retiring in 1986. He also had managed the family farms in Cape Girardeau County since 1950.

He was a member of Grace Episcopal Church in Jefferson City.

Survivors include four sons, Robert Evans Jr., William and Patrick Evans, all of Cape Girardeau, Louis Evans of Scott City; a daughter, Molly Evans of Cape Girardeau; 16 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.