Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Elizabeth Wharton DOWNS
ELIZABETH WHARTON EVANS, 95, a former volunteer at Pennsylvania Hospital, died Wednesday at Sandy River Nursing Home in Farmington, Maine.
Mrs. Evans was a descendant of Thomas McKean, governor of Pennsylvania from 1797 to 1803 and a signer of the Declaration of Independence representing Delaware.
Mrs. Evans was active in the Women's Committee of the Pennsylvania Hospital and worked in many other charitable causes. She and her late husband, insurance executive Rowland Evans Sr., were well-known among tennis enthusiasts here and in Europe.
She graduated from Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Conn., and was president of her class at Bryn Mawr College.
Survivors: daughters, Phebe Warren Cooke and Bessie McKean Smith; sons, Rowland Jr., Owen Glendower, John Lewis 2d; 20 grandchildren, and 20 great- grandchildren.
Services: funeral, noon today, Church of the Redeemer, Old Gulph Road, Bryn Mawr; burial, in the churchyard.
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