Evelyn Wade passed away April 12, 2017.

Mrs. Wade's Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on April 15, 2017 at Springhill Cemetery in Naples TX.

Evelyn Marcelle Spencer Witt Wade was born August 9, 1921, in Naples to Monroe and Hattie Spencer. Evelyn was preceded in death by her daughter Cynthia Ann Witt Brown, both parents, all of her siblings and her husbands, Lloyd Witt and William Wade.

Evelyn was the sister to Johnny Spencer; Viva Mae Spencer; Harvie Dee Carpenter, Everett Spencer, and Charles Spencer. They all grew up in and near the Naples/Omaha communities. After World War II, she moved to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. She stayed in the DFW area till 1997 when she moved to Lake O' the Pines. In 2003, she moved to Longview to live with her grandson and his family.

Evelyn is survived by her grandson, Franklin Duane McCarty and his wife, Amy Geiger McCarty; her three great grandchildren, Emily, Rachel and Ian McCarty; and her many nieces and nephews, all of whom she loved and cared for as if they were her own.

Evelyn grew up in a time long forgotten. She was the daughter of a sharecropper living in the rural farm lands that supported her family. She was picking cotton and peas from a young age of eight. 'Life was hard and work was harder' is something she used to say. She worked at the Lone Star Ammunition plant next to the Red River Army Depot during World War II. Shortly after the war she and her husband, Lloyd Witt, moved to Dallas with their daughter, Cynthia Ann. Evelyn was a resilient woman. After her first marriage ended, she persevered and was a trailblazer for working women in the 1950's through the 1980's. She championed for single working women through her activities in the Oak Cliff chapter of American Business Women Association and worked at many places in the Dallas area, even owning her own janitorial cleaning company that she and her second husband, Bill Wade managed together.

Evelyn was sure in her faith of God and her redeemer, Jesus Christ. Her health prevented her from going to church at the end of her life, but she loved God and truly wanted to show God's love and comfort through her actions. Everyone in her family will tell you stories of how she helped make sure people in her family had food and clothing. She would genuinely give the coat off her back to help someone else. She did this because she loved life and she loved her family and because she wanted to share God's love with all she knew.

She and her siblings were so close. They were her first set of best friends. She loved them so much even after they were buried. She loved her daughter, Cynthia; with every breath of her soul. When she lost her daughter, she knew her mission in life was to give her only grandchild the life she wanted for herself and for her daughter. She was always a part of Frank's life.

When her mental health started to decline, the best thing for her was to move into her grandson's home. In that time she made such deep and tight bonds with her great grandchildren. She brought into the house family stories and tales that could have been lost. She loved her family so much. She became the completing piece to the home. She brought such loving memories to our home. She would sit and play video games with her great grandson; she taught her great granddaughters how to make banana pudding and beauty tips. She liked to sing songs to the family while doing things around the house.

Evelyn had dementia, just like her sisters. The disease is a sad way of taking a person away, but her family worked hard to let her die with dignity. She helped the kids with homework and she told everyone the recipes that she remembered. She loved helping in the vegetable garden and loved being outside in the spring and fall. All of these things helped keep her brain strong. Dementia took a longtime to claim her body.