Evelyn Easterwood

Mrs. Easterwood passed from this life Thursday morning, October 31, 2013 at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis.

A native of Hardeman County, she was the daughter of the late Giles Charles and Annie Belcher Sexton and lived in the Rogers Springs area until she was 18. In 1948, after graduation from Middleton High School, she moved to Memphis where she was employed at Kellogg, Inc., retiring in 1995. She had also worked for Sears. She enjoyed fishing and watching NASCAR. While living in here, Mrs. Easterwood was a member of the Rogers Springs Church of Christ and moved her membership to Park Avenue Church of Christ is Memphis.

She leaves three sons, Mark Easterwood of Lexington, TN, Gary Clark Easterwood and his wife, Janet, of Mt. Joy, PA and Keith Easterwood and his wife, Camillia, of Chattanooga, TN; four sisters, Vadeen Stanfill and her husband, Ira, of Germantown, TN, Ann Sexton Wells of Saulsbury, TN, Vernette Miller and her husband, Eugene, and Vernice MIller and her husband, Harold, both of Collierville, TN; a sister-in-law Elsie Sexton; six grandchildren, Brent, Wyatt, Ashley and Courtney Easterwood, April Wilson and Carrie Humphreys; 6 great-grandchildren and 13 nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Dr. Alvis Sexton.

Memorials are requested to go the Rogers Springs Church of Christ or Cemetery, 335 Old Rogers Springs Road, Middleton, TN 38052.