Rev. Harvey Evans

The Rev. Harvey Evans, 83, of Union City went home to be with the Lord 11:45 p.m. Friday, July 20, 2018, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Calvary Baptist Church in Union City. Dr. Melvin Poe will officiate, with burial to follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. today at Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home and from 9 a.m. until the hour of services Tuesday at the church.
Pallbearers will be Ray Taylor, Pat Haygood, Dakota Preciado, Junior Jones, John Nicks, Chris Baxter, Eric Baxter and Kenneth Shannon.
He was born Dec. 4, 1934, in Elbridge, son of the late Henry Joseph and Essie Mae (Hilock) Evans. He married Shirley (James) Evans Sept. 18, 1956. She survives.
He was a 1953 graduate of the former Woodland Mills High School and served two tours in the United States Army during the Korean conflict.
He retired as credit manager for Reynolds Brothers Oil Company after 36 years of service. He was a bi-vocational Baptist minister and had pastored at Bethel Baptist Church, Johnson Grove Baptist Church and Fairview Baptist Church. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Union City, where he had served as a Men’s Sunday School teacher.
He is also survived by two daughters, Carol Baxter and husband, James, of Union City and Dianne Littrell and husband, Troy, of Paris; one son, Ken Evans and wife, Fhiphrah, of Tulsa, Okla.; five grandchildren, Chris Baxter and wife, Michelle, and William Eric Baxter and wife, Laura, all of Greenfield, Abigail Littrell of Paris, Joy Moses and husband, Preston, of Douglasville, Ga., and Ronald Aaron Myers and wife, Amanda, of Tulsa; nine great-grandchildren, Brantley Baxter, Kayleigh Baxter, Maddie Cash and Hayden Howard, all of Greenfield, Ariel Taylor and husband, Austin, of Sharon, Joshua Moses and Jonathan Moses, both of Douglasville, and Cannon Myers and Hadley Myers, both of Tulsa; one brother, Robert Storey of Rutherford; and several nieces and nephews.
He was also preceded in death by his foster parents, D.M. and Nora Elizabeth McBride; his sister, Gertie (Evans) Vares; his brother, Elgie Evans; and two foster brothers, E.L. McBride and Silas Ray McBride.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.emfuneralhome.com.

Published 7.23.18