He was born July 12, 1917, in Lawrence, the son of Kenneth C. and Clementine E. (Davis) Evans. He attended Pinckney School and junior high school at Ninth and Kentucky streets. He graduated from Liberty Memorial High School in 1935. As a boy, he sold magazines and newspapers and had a paper route for the Lawrence Journal-World.
He worked for Brinkman Bakery before World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard on July 24, 1942, serving in the Baltimore area. He was discharged Nov. 10, 1945. He then had a retail milk route for Fritzel Dairy until he joined the Lawrence Police Department in 1949. He retired in 1971 as a lieutenant in the traffic department. He then worked several years for Rumsey Funeral Home.
Mr. Evans was a life member of Lawrence Men's Bowling Assn., charter member of Fraternal Order of Police, Lawrence Lodge No. 2, and a member of Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 309, Plymouth Congregational Church since 1933, and Kansas Peace Officers.
He received a certificate of achievement from the American Legion Dorsey-Liberty Post No. 14 in 1967, a Law Enforcement Award from the Luncheon Optimist Club in 1970 and the Substantial Citizen Award from the Lawrence Kiwanis Club in 1971.
He married Helen Conrad on Oct. 12, 1941, in Lawrence. She died Aug. 3, 1981. He married Catherine Brubaker on Feb. 12, 1985. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two stepsons, William Brubaker and Robert Brubaker, both of Lawrence; three stepdaughters, Deborah Hobgood, Kansas City, Mo., and Wanda Fulks and Tamara Guinn, both of Lawrence; 12 stepgrandchildren; and five stepgreat-grandchildren.
A son, John Mason, died July 26, 1948. A daughter, Connie Lee Evans, died Dec. 21, 1946.
Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.
The family suggests memorials to Fraternal Order of Police or Hospice Care of Douglas County, sent in care of the funeral home.
Online condolences may be sent to www.rumsey-yost.com.
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