Audrey Emma Trapp Bevis
Audrey Emma Trapp Bevis, 85 of Richwood, passed on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at Marion General Hospital. She was born March 8, 1923 in LaRue to the late Henry Earl and Lola Jane (Holt) Trapp.
She graduated from OSU and had worked at Marion Power Shovel prior to that. She taught in the North Union school district and was instrumental in organizing North Union Girls Basketball and was softball commissioner in 1974. Audrey was a member of the Essex United Methodist Church for over 50 years where she was a Sunday School teacher for many years and was a member of the W.S.C.S., and she also attended Community United Calvary Church. She was a past Worthy Matron of the former Mt. Carmel Chapter 42 OES and Jackson Grange. She loved to write poetry, and paint in oils, water colors and charcoal and she loved doing chalk talks. She was a 4-H advisor for Stitch and Stir in Jackson Township.
On September 5, 1940 she married Fay Daniel Bevis and he died May 30, 1979. She was also predeceased by a daughter, Lana Sue Stierhoff; four brothers, Carlton, Sheldon, Henry Earl, Orlo; a sister, Velma Fields, and a great-grandson, Ian.
She is survived by four daughters, Mary Jo (Jack) Smith, Richwood; Peggy (Ernie) Jamison, Richwood; Nancy Bowman, Bellville; Vicki (Ward) Wildman, Angola, Indiana; a son, Kenneth (Teresa) Bevis, Richwood; son-in-law, Jim Stierhoff, Bellville; two sisters, Louis Mueck, Richwood; Yolah Hastings, Richwood; sister-in-law, Frances Trapp, Galena; grandchildren, Rosemary Price, Penni Smith, Beth (Bud) Yoder, Will (Laurie) Wilson, Johnna (Wes) Arnott, Amy (Matt) Rini, Holly (Ted) Ebelberger, Wendy Wilson, Jon (Joni) Stierhoff, Ernie (Cindi) Jamison Jr., Dan (Tanya) Smith, Jennifer (Eric) Ballenger, Dr. Becky (Kenn) McFarland, Ellen (Delbert) Roberts, Jill (Paul) Sells, Angela Spain, Todd (Trisha) Bowman, Derek (Beth) Bevis, Chelsea Bevis, Robert Bevis, Danielle Wildman, Sam Bevis, Wayne Wildman, 50 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 11:00 am in the Rush Creek (Essex) United Methodist Church with Rev. David Hudson officiating. Burial will follow in Price Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her grandsons. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 PM on Friday at the Stofcheck-Ballinger Funeral Home in Richwood.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Children’s Hospital Foundation or Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation or church of donor's choice.
Condolences and remembrances may be expressed at www.stofcheck-ballingerfuneralhome.com.
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