----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 05/ /1962

Andrews, Evalina M. (1869 - 1962)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. Frank Andrews, 93, a resident of Clark County most of her life, died of complication Sunday, May 13, 1962, at the Clark County Hospital in Owen, where she had been a patient for a month.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Grace Methodist Church. The Rev. Gene Carlson will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home from Wednesday until 11 a.m. Thursday and then at the church.

The former Evalina M. Arms was born April 4, 1869 near Loyal. She was married Sept. 8, 1901 in Greenwood to Frank Andrews, who died July 6, 1924. She attended school in the Spokeville community and at Wayland Academy, teaching at the age of 16 and taught school in Clark County, including six years in the Greenwood Public School. In 1899, she began a course in nursing in Minneapolis.

Following her marriage she lived in Greenwood until the death of her husband. In 1926 she moved to Detroit, Mich., to care for her sister who was ill. In 1932 she returned to Greenwood. She had been a resident of the Havenet Nursing Home in Owen for three years before entering the hospital.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Albert (Elsie) Gauger, Arcadia Mrs. Herman (Esther) Ficke, Metaline Falls, Wash., and Mrs. George (Margaret) Hoehne, Greenwood seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister.