Obit: Diaz, Evangeline L. (1902 - 1995)

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Surnames: DIAZ SHEETS DAVIS JACKSON TOBUREN HORN HUMKE

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 03/15/1995

EVANGELINE DIAZ
 

Evangeline L. Diaz, 92, formerly of Greenwood, Clark County, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 1995, at Highland Park Manor, Enid, Oklahoma. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 2, 1995, in the chapel at Henninger-Allen Funeral Home, Enid, Oklahoma. Rev. Gary Holeman officiated. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Evangeline L. Sheets was born on May 27, 1902, in Greenwood, to Alonzo and Ida (nee Davis) Sheets. She graduated from Greenwood High School in 1920 and later from Eau Claire Teachers College in Eau Claire. She taught for many years in Clark County rural schools before moving to Enid in Nov. 1955. On Nov. 2, 1957, she married Joe L. Diaz. He preceded her in death on July 30, 1968. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Enid, the Parksinson Sunday School class, United Methodist Women, Rebekah Lodge 21, AARP Chapter 3040, and Royal Neighbors of America.

Survivors include nieces Verona Jackson, Sparta Ruth Toburen, Greenwood and Jeanette Horn, Thorp and nephews Irvin Humke and Paul Humke, Greenwood.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and three sisters.