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W.C. Evans in the cab of his red truck, a longhorn painted on the door.

W.C. “Punk” Evans

W.C. Evans

July 30, 1939 – February 13, 2011

Mr. Evans died Sunday at his residence.

Mr. Evans was born July 30, 1939, in Temple to W.J. Evans and Bernice Silvers Evans. He graduated from Academy High School and received a BS degree from Southwest Texas State University. He served for eight years in the 36th Infantry Division & 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard. He married Bernice Jones August 18, 1962 in Hallettsville. He lived at Little River all of his life and operated the Evans Ranch. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Little River, where he served as a Deacon, member of Board of Directors for Bell Co. Farm Bureau, Texas Corn Producers, 2 term Bell County Youth Fair board member, Bell Co. Youth Fair Walk of Fame inductee, Friend of Bell Co. 4-H award recipient, Bell Co Youth Fair Commercial Steer Superintendent for 29 years, Bell Co. Youth Fair PRCA Rodeo co-founder when the Fair moved to the Expo Center, Bell Co. Cowboy Ring of Honor inductee, American Truck Historical Society member, Southwest Texas State University rodeo team former member, National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association former member and Temple Longhorn Riding Club former member and was president of Little River-Wilson Valley Cemetery Association.

Mr. Evans was preceded in death by his parents W.J. and Bernice Silvers Evans and by a brother C.J. Evans.

Survivors include his wife Bernice Evans of Little River; two sons Ed Evans and his wife Christy and their daughter Abigail and son Nikolas of Lafayette, Indiana and John Evans and his wife Erica and their daughter Darby of Little River.

Memorials may be made to W.C. Evans Scholarship-Commercial Steer Program of the BCYF Attention: Carol Jones First State Bank Central Texas 5550 SW H.K. Dodgen Loop Temple, Texas 76504 or Little River-Wilson Valley Cemetery Association P.O. Box 457 Little-River-Academy, TX 76554 or First Baptist Church P.O. Box 398 Little River-Academy, TX 76554.

A baby wrapped in a blanket, an old studio portrait.
A small old photograph of a rider on a longhorn steer.
Two young men in suits and bow ties on a couch, an old colour print.
A young woman and a young man in matching jackets beside a stock trailer.
A man asleep in an armchair with a newborn on his chest.
A man in a red cap carrying a cooler and a woman in a striped dress by the shed.
Two men in hats at a horse’s head by the pens, one writing on a clipboard. Black and white.
Four riders on horseback in a line on green pasture.
A boy standing by a red grain truck with its bed tipped up.
A man in a hat beside a snow-covered white pickup hitched to a cattle trailer.
Three men in hats beside the red Evans Ranch truck with the longhorn on its door.
A man in a white hat in front of a red Peterbilt hauling a red tractor on a lowboy.
A man in a white hat leaning on a red pickup at sunset, farm equipment behind him.
A man in a hat and vest by the front wheel of a big green John Deere tractor, a woman on the step behind.
A man standing behind a seated woman in a black and white blouse.
A man in a black hat and white shirt with a boutonniere, standing among the trees.
Three men in white shirts with boutonnieres before a stone wall, the one in the middle in a black hat.