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Notes for William Elkinton EVANS
William Elkinton Evans September 27, 1916 - December 28, 2008 William Elkinton Evans, 92, died Dec. 29, 2008, in State College. Dr. Evans, along with his wife, Lucretia (Way) Wood Evans, had been a resident of Foxdale Village, a Quaker-directed Continuing Care Retirement Community in State College, since May 1991. He was a retired physician of internal medicine who spent his career practicing medicine in Crossville, Cumberland County, Tenn. He was a founding member of the Cumberland Clinic Foundation, established in 1949 as a non-profit organization "to promote the wholeness of body, mind and spirit, which is health" for the people of the area. Dr. Evans was a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the Cumberland Clinic Foundation and also served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Cumberland Medical Center. He and his identical twin brother, Jonathan Evans, bought and operated a farm, which they named Glad Acres Farm. On this land the two brothers and their wives built their homes and raised their families. After moving to Pennsylvania in his retirement years, Bill and Lu returned frequently for visits to their longtime home in Crossville, Tenn. He loved living in and exploring that beautiful area. Bill was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa. on Sept. 27, 1916, son of the late Francis Algernon and Anna Rhoads (Elkinton) Evans. He was a graduate of Germantown Friends School, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, all in the Philadelphia area. He had an internship at Pennsylvania Hospital and residencies in Internal Medicine at Delaware County Hospital and Pennsylvania Hospital, both in Philadelphia. In April of 1951, he began his medical practice with the Cumberland Clinic in Crossville. With some advanced studies through the years in the fields of cardiology and diabetes, he treated a wide variety of patients during his career of almost 40 years. On Oct. 3, 1953, he married Lucretia Way Wood, at that time of Philadelphia, Pa. A lifelong member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Bill was a member of the State College Friends Meeting. In their early years in Tennessee, Bill and Lu were among those who helped start the West Knoxville Friends Meeting, the Southern Appalachian Association of Friends (which became the Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association), and the Crossville Friends Meeting. All through his life he was a supporter of Quaker educational institutions, of organizations working for peace and justice, and those working for the protection of our world's environment. He was strong in the faith that one day the peoples of our beautiful world would be free of war, living together in peace. In 1989 on the occasion of his 50th reunion at Haverford College, Bill was presented with the annual Haverford Award, which "supports and demonstrates the College's expressed concern for the application of knowledge to socially useful ends. The award seeks to identify, reward, and focus public attention on those alumni who best reflect Haverford College's concern with the uses to which its students put their knowledge, humanity, initiative, and individuality." Bill also had a lifelong love of Mount Desert Island, Maine. He had family connections there dating back many years. A cottage by the ocean had been built in 1924-25 for his paternal grandmother, Rachel Cope Evans, and her daughter, Anna Cope Evans. It was at this cottage that he had spent time as a youth, then with his wife and children for vacations. Its beautiful surroundings provided great recreational opportunities for sailing, canoeing, bicycling, hiking, mountain climbing, and many fascinating construction projects, which he thoroughly enjoyed. Since his retirement, Bill and Lu lived at this cottage at Kings Point for four to five months each summer into fall. Kings Point will continue to be a place for family and friends to come together in person and spirit. Before passing, Bill was very accepting of his time to move on. He shared his love and sense of peace with family and friends, and his hope and knowledge that those of us who remain will carry on, working to create a better world for everyone. He expressed his lifelong love of poetry, and his message to all, as written in one of his poems. Excerpt from A Candle for Christmas (1977) Light your candle and let it shine Across the darkness clear and free Beaming a message that all can see. In everyone's heart there's a spark divine That through the darkness will ever shine Uniting all men in a common goal The search for that love which makes us whole. Bill is survived by his wife, Lucretia Wood Evans; by four children, Jonathan Wood Evans and his wife, Melissa Graf-Evans, and their children, Rachel, Hannah, and Jeremy, of Gradyville, Pa.; Cynthia Evans Trueblood and her husband, Peter Martin Trueblood, and their son, Matthew, of Oakland, Calif.; Rebecca Evans Marvil and her husband, Joshua Dallas Marvil, and their daughter, Cayla, of Yarmouth, Maine; and Deborah Susanne Evans and her husband, Ronald Claude Schaaf, and their children, Eliza, Wilder, and Isaac, of Ashland, Ore. Also surviving are two brothers, Arthur Evans, of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Joseph Morris Evans and his wife, Anne Tall Evans, of Gwynedd, Pa.; and sister-in-law Elizabeth Evans Halverstadt, the wife of his identical twin brother Jonathan Evans, who preceded him in death in 1969. A memorial meeting for worship will be held at Foxdale Village, State College, Pa., under the care of the State College Friends Meeting, on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, at 3 p.m. Additional services will be held in Crossville, Tenn., on Saturday, April 11, 2009, and on Mount Desert Island, Maine, on Sunday, July 5, 2009. Memorial contributions may be made to the Foxdale Village Community Fund or to the Foxdale Village Employees Assistance Fund, 500 E. Marylyn Ave., State College, PA 16801; to the American Friends Service Committee, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102; or to the Cumberland Medical Center, 421 South Main Street, Crossville, TN 38555. Arrangements are under the direction of Schwartz-Adamo Funeral and Cremation Services, Mifflinburg, Pa.
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