Wava Lee Robinson Evans

WAVA LEE ROBINSON EVANS, age 73, passed away Saturday, October 18, 2003, in the comfort of her bed at the home of her daughter, Beth. She was born March 17, 1930, in a small mining camp in Bell County, Kentucky, to the late Oscar Lee Robinson and Elizabeth Davidson Robinson. She graduated from Bell County High School and went on to St. Joseph?s School of Nursing to obtain her RN degree. After graduation she returned to Middlesboro and worked at the old Middlesboro Hospital until she married James Foley Evans in 1954 and began her career as wife and mother. In 1970, she returned to her nursing career, becoming School Nurse for the Middlesboro Independent School System. She introduced the Health Occupations program at Middlesboro High School during her tenure with the school system. She retired in 1985. She was a devoted Christian and lifelong member of St. Mary?s Episcopal Church. She is remembered for her lifelong servitude to the Lord. She fed the hobo?s of yesteryear, gave hospice to others before the hospice program existed and always opened her heart and home to those in need. She unselfishly shared the talents God gave her and his love shown around her as he took her home. In 1978, Wava Lee was preceded in death by the love of her life, James Foley Evans. She was also preceded in death by her parents; sister, Barbara; brother, Tommy, and three of her dearest friends, Wootsie Schneider, Wanda Lee and Viola Siler. She is survived by her daughter, Beth Evans Walters and husband, David of Jefferson City, TN; daughter, Laura Ann Caudill and husband Roger of Franklin, KY; son, Joseph Grant Evans and wife, Cathy of Hazard, KY; eight grandchildren, Grant, James David, Bradley, Evan, Martha, Rachael, Andres and Alexander, who will always lovingly remember her as the ?Ultimate Warrior?, but most of all as their loving Nana; brother, Oscar Lee Robinson; sisters, Carolyn Taylor, Edna Poore and Rosemary Thorpe. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, October 23, 2003 at St. Mary?s Episcopal Church in Middlesboro, KY with burial to follow in the Old Middlesboro Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at the Shumate Funeral Home in Middlesboro, KY. Arrangements courtesy of Farrar Funeral Home in Jefferson City, TN (865) 475-3892 www.farrarfuneralhome.com