Obituary Record

Evelyn C (Carroll) Hedges
Died on 11/24/2010

Evelyn C. Hedges, 88

Evelyn C. Hedges, 88, of Blair, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at Memorial Community Hospital.

Services were Monday, Nov. 29, at Grant Park Christian Church in Des Moines, Iowa. Interment was at Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Evelyn C. Carroll was born May 20, 1922, in Des Moines to John and Effie (Fern) Carroll. She worked for Look magazine until her marriage to James W. "Billy" Hedges in 1947.

Mrs. Hedges was a member of Grant Park Christian Church, and had resided at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and John Gaukler; son and daughter-in-law, Russell and Val Hedges of Blair; and three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband; sisters, Margaret Carroll, Marjorie Jean (Mickey Murphy) Carroll, and brother, William Carroll.

Memorials are suggested to the Shriners Children's Hospital.

~~~obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Association. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska

Find A Grave Memorial #93326414

Printed in the Washington County Pilot-Tribune on 11/30/2010


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