Eva Jo Echols

Eva Jo Echols, age 90, of Missouri City, Texas passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, January 9, 2022. Eva was born August 9, 1931, in Montague, Texas to Cecil and Jewell Richardson. After her mother passed away at an early age, she gained a loving stepmother, Lola Richardson.

Eva graduated in 1948 from Roy Miller High School in Corpus Christi, Texas and married A.E. “Eck” Echols that same year. They were married for 49 years before Eck’s death in 1997. Over their years together they lived and raised their children in Port Lavaca and Portland, Texas; and Shreveport, Louisiana, before settling permanently in Missouri City, Texas in the mid-1970’s. In addition to being a mother and homemaker, Eva worked as an office administrator for a Corpus Christi radiology group for several years and as payroll manager for Mundy Companies in the Houston area, where she worked for 35 years until her retirement.

Eva enjoyed spending time in her backyard and garden, painting landscapes and crafts for family and friends, and sewing everything from clothes, to quilts and handy items for her home. After her retirement Eva spent many years enjoying the “snowbird” life in Rockport, Texas where she had a vacation RV. She was involved with the Rockport Center for the Arts and yearly Art Festival, and enjoyed fishing, crabbing and sharing her love of the Texas coast with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by parents Cecil & Jewel Richardson; stepmother Lola Richardson; husband A.E. “Eck” Echols; and brother Paul Richardson.

She is survived by her brother Charles Richardson and wife Mary, sister-in-law Jeanette Richardson, sons Al Echols, Sam Echols, Ron Echols and wife Cynthia, and daughter Peggy Menger; her grandchildren Dawn Adair, Brandy Menger Creamer, Andrea Menger Feits, Wyatt Menger, Travis Menger, Danielle Clements, Brennan Echols, Ashley Echols, Jason Echols, Jordan Echols, Nathan Echols, Bobby Bauer, Alexandra Sorrell and Grayson Sorrell; and many great grandchildren that she loved and adored.

Visitation will be held at Memory Gardens Funeral Home on Friday, January 21, 2022 at 12:30 PM with Celebration of Life Service at 2:00 PM. Burial will follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Honored to serve as pallbearers:

Rice Menger

Brennan Echols

Michael Richardson

Bobby Bauer

Mike Stevens

Frank Polderman

Honorary Pallbearers:

Mark Jackson

Mike Crawford

Kevin Thompson

In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made in her name to one of two art leagues near and dear to Eva:

Rockport Center for the Arts

638 E Market Street

Rockport, Texas 78382.

Phone: 361-729-5519.

Online: Donate — Rockport Center for the Arts (rockportartcenter.com)

Sugarland Art Center & Gallery

104 Industrial Blvd. Ste Q

Sugar Land, TX 77478

Phone: 281-565-0957

Online: Donors and Sponsors - Sugar Land Art Center & Gallery

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.MemoryGardensFuneralHome.com for the Echols family.