Evalyn Lorene Burnaugh Williams

Visitation is scheduled for Wednesday, February 5, 2014 from 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.at Memorial Funeral Chapel in Bryan. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Thursday, February 6, 2014 at the funeral home with Reverend Doctor Bruce Wood of Aldersgate United Methodist Church officiating. Interment will follow at Rest-Ever Memorial Park Cemetery in Bryan.

Evalyn was born June 10, 1924 in Duncan, Oklahoma to her parents, Hattie Verlin Lyons and Albert Franklin Burnaugh. Evalyn graduated from high school in Shamrock, Texas and received a Business School Degree in Oklahoma City. On December 5, 1945, she married her loving husband Ted Williams, just twelve hours after he returned from World War II. She was a homemaker and held a bookkeeper’s position with the Waco ISD and with the College Station ISD.

She was a long time member of the United Methodist Church. Evalyn loved her Lord, loved her family, and loved her music. She could always be heard humming a hymn or whistling a lively, big band tune. There was little that Ted could produce in his garden that Evalyn couldn’t find a way to freeze, can or pickle.

She is preceded in death by her parents Albert and Verlin; her husband Ted; brothers Verl Burnaugh and Jerry Burnaugh; as well as her precious granddaughter, Emily Ann Williams.

She leaves behind her children, Diann Williams Steele (DeeDee) of Bryan, Nancy Williams Rhoden and husband Darrell of Frisco, TX, and Ted Albert Williams and wife Ruth of Duncan, Oklahoma, and chosen daughter, Marsha Davenel of The Woodlands, Texas; grandchildren, Charlie and Robin Benbow of College Station, Jeremy and Alex Rogers of Mt. Shasta, CA, Mitchell and Ashley Williams of Frisco, TX, and Donny Williams of Forney, TX; great-grandchildren, John and Meghann Gerzik of College Station, Caraline Benbow of College Station, Austen, Navy and Dash Rogers of Mt. Shasta, CA; great-great-grandchildren, Elijah and Micah Gerzik of College Station, TX; numerous nieces and nephews, including Jeff Burnaugh of San Francisco, CA.

The family would like to thank Melanie and the rest of the staff of Traditions Hospice for their outstanding care. Memorials may be made to Traditions Hospice or the American Cancer Society.