Obituary of Sible Ada Evans

Funeral services for Sible Ada Stanton Evans, 96, will be held at the First Baptist Church in Troup, Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 10:00am. Reverend James Cheatham and Reverend Larry Craig will be officiating with interment following at Bradford Cemetery under the direction of Cottle Funeral Home, Troup. Sible Ada Evans passed away on Saturday, April 30, 2016 in Austin Texas. She was born on February 28, 1920 in Troup Texas to the late Willie Austin Stanton and Bennie Mildred Stephenson Stanton. Sible was a lifelong resident of East Texas and a devoted Baptist. She enjoyed gardening and planting flowers, but she was known for her pretty pansies. She also loved being a mother. Sible Evans is preceded in death by her first husband Thurman Evans in 1977 and her second husband Curtis L. Evans Sr. in 2007, her parents, a daughter Carol Ann Veal, a step-son James Lloyd Evans; brother Elmer Stanton; sisters, Willie Mae Fitzgerald, Mildred Smith and Ruby Fitzgerald.. Survivors include her step-daughters, Shirley Steele of Dripping Spring and Ida Anne Evans Moore of Loxley, Alabama; step-son, Curtis L. Evans, Jr of Homer, Michigan; brothers, JT Stanton & wife Pat of Bullard, James Stanton & wife Janet of Whitehouse; sisters, Betty Lou Martin & husband Kenneth of Bullard and Modell Holman of Troup; grandchildren, Michael Veal, Phillip Evans Steele, Stephen Kelly Steele, Susan Leigh Steele; three great grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren. The family will receive friends and loved ones on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 from 6-8 pm at Cottle Funeral Home in Troup. Online registration and condolences are available at www.cottlefuneralhome.com