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Evans Volunteering for the Betterment of Livingston County

By Lois McCain, Constitution Tribune
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

CAPTION: Helen Evans and Colby Moody go over spelling words for the week in Jenny Hill’s room at Field Elementary.

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Helen Evans is one of the 427 RSVP members who gave 81,328 hours for the betterment of Livingston County in 2009. She grew up in Dawn; attended grade school and graduated from Dawn High School. Her father, Morgan Evans, was an automobile salesman and her mother, Lydia Evans, taught at several schools before retiring as math teacher of Chillicothe High School.

Helen started teaching at Phillips School north of Chula after taking a Teacher’s Examination; then 10 years in Missouri; one year in Idaho and 28 years in Marion, Ohio. While teaching, she attended summer school at William Jewell College, University of Kansas City, Northwest Missouri University and graduated from the University of Montana in 1957.

During her teaching years in Marion, Ohio she was president of Philemon Gregg International Reading Association; president of Eta Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma Society and was a Jennings Scholar, an honor given to outstanding teachers in Ohio.

She was a member of First Presbyterian Church where she was on the Committee of Education, taught Sunday school and Bible school. She made frequent visits to Chillicothe to visit her mother; sister, Margaret Cramer and family in Dawn; and other siblings in surrounding towns until the death of her mother in 1995. After retirement she decided to come back to Chillicothe and be near her family members.