Lois Ann Evans

Our beloved mother, grandmother, and friend, Lois Ann Nielsen Evans passed away surrounded by her family in her home in Holladay, Utah on Monday October 10, 2022.

Born March 27, 1928 to Simpson and Hazel Nielsen in Hyrum, Utah. The second of eight children, 4 girls and 4 boys. She was always close with her siblings, parents, and Grandpa Joe Wilson and Grandma Annie & Grandpa Henry Nielsen. She graduated from South Cache High School in 1946 and moved to Berkeley, California where she worked at a bank as a bookkeeper. She married Gordon Tarbet Evans on January 19, 1949 in the Logan Utah LDS Temple. They settled in the Bay Area of California where they raised their 4 children: Ronald, Gloria, Douglas, and Nancy. Lois worked as a school bus driver for 12 years for special needs students. Lois and Gordon moved to Salt Lake City, UT when their children left home. In their retired years, they enjoyed traveling in their motor home with the Good Sam and wintering in Yuma, AZ.

Lois enjoyed hand quilting and won several quilting contests. She made a quilt for each of her 16 grandchildren. She was an excellent cook who never let a visitor leave hungry. She grew her own vegetables and shared them with family and friends. She served faithfully in her LDS ward as a librarian. She lovingly and patiently took care of Gordon in their later years.

Lois is survived by her children, Ronald (Susan), Gloria Deyhle, Douglas (Jody), and Nancy (Gordon Palmer), siblings Dean (Myrna), Maxine (Bud Burge), Denton (Diane), Sondra Bradshaw, and Barry (Diane), and 16 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren, and 1 great great granddaughter. She is preceded in death by her husband, parents, sister Shirley and her husband Gilbert Burke, brother Vaughn Nielsen and his wife Jean, sisters-in law Patricia Nielsen, brother in-law Bart Bradshaw, and son in-laws Donovan Dawson and Kenneth Deyhle.

A memorial service will be held on Friday October 14, 2022 at 2 PM at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park 3401 South Highland Drive, Millcreek, UT 84106. A viewing will take place from 12:45-1:45 PM. Interment with her husband Gordon will take place at 3 PM.