EVANS, EDITH PRICE, May 11, 1903 – January 26, 2004

Edith Price Evans, 100, passed away peacefully in her sleep on January 26 at the Oneida County Nursing Home from complications related to her age. She was born May 11, 1903, the ninth child of ten, to John E. Price and Emma Morse Price. All of the children were born in Samaria in a two-room brick home built by her father before her parents were married.

Edith graduated from the Samaria Grade School and the Malad High School then attended Albion Normal School where she was trained as a school teacher. She later taught in both Samaria and Pleasant View grade schools.

She was married to Theodore Lloyd Lindsey in her mother’s home in Samaria on June 24, 1926. Edith and Theodore had three children: Beverly Joy Lindsey who died at three months of age, Theodore Price Lindsey and Joseph W. Lindsey. They were divorced in 1939.

Edith later married Carl A. Evans in the Logan Temple on September 14, 1944. In October 1945, she gave birth to a third son, John Jay Evans. Edith and Carl were perfectly matched to each other and shared the same standards and ideals. She has been a life-long, faithful and active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in almost every capacity in the Relief Society, Sunday School and Primary. She loved teaching little children about the gospel.

When the Samaria Ward was dissolved, she acquired a couple of the chairs from the nursery class she had taught in as a young woman. One of those chairs still sits in the living room of her home in Samaria.

Perhaps her greatest calling was in supporting Carl for the twenty years he served as Bishop of the Samaria Ward, which was almost the entire time they were married. Carl died in 19971.

The family rarely had Sunday dinner without a guest at the table, or the dinner had to wait while she and Carl took a home cooked meal to someone in the ward. If the Bishop is the father of the ward, Edith was certainly a mother to the ward.

After Carl’s passing, she served a full time mission in Arizona and upon returning from the mission, she and her sister, Esther spent winters of the next 17 years doing temple work in Logan, Provo, Salt Lake City and St. George. Edith also served for many years as the president of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

Edith is survived by her three sons, 26 grandchildren and many great and great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her beloved Carl; daughter, Beverly Joy; her nine brothers and sisters and many nieces, nephews and friends.

Funeral services will be January 30 in the Malad LDS Second Ward Chapel.