Caroline Cecelia Trexel Evans, 87, was living at Mon Valley Care Center in Monongahela and went peacefully to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. She was born on April 29, 1936, in Eldora, Pa., daughter of the late Charles and Helen Behanna Trexel, who passed away shortly after giving birth, and she was raised by her grandmother, Caroline Fine Behanna. She graduated from West Newton High School with the Class of 1955. She then married her late husband of 55 years, Clyde G. Evans, who passed away Oct. 9, 2010. In 1973, they moved from West Newton to the Warminister area, where she worked in the dietary department of William Tenet Elementary School for two years. After moving to New Hope, Pa., she worked in the Holy Redeemer Hospital’s Central Service Sterilization Area for 15 years before retiring. She then retired with her husband to their dream home in Clarington, Pa., near Cook Forest. She is survived by a daughter, Rebecca (Evans) Ritchie of Jefferson Estates, Pa.; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Clyde G. Evans of New Hope, Pa., and Charles Timothy (Cathy) Evans of Morrisville, Pa.; 11 grandchildren, Barry (Jennifer) Ritchie, Brian Ritchie, Christopher (Jennifer) Ritchie, Heather (Steve) Fitzgibbons, Christopher Evans, Christina (Andrey) Orshansky and Elisabeth Melendez; 14 great-grandchildren, Alyssa (fiancé, Tyler Speer), Trevor (fiancé, Kalee Sivic), Tyler, Jacob, Noah, Emilee and Luca Bella Ritchie, Dustin and Carly Fitzgibbons, Alex and Riley Yerkes, Viktor Orshansky, David Sherwin and Parker Rae Blank; along with several nieces and nephews. Besides her parents, Charles and Helen Trexel, and her husband Clyde, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Nancy Helen (Evans) Ferraton; two brothers, Richard and Ronald Trexel; a sister, Lorraine (Trexel) Evans; a stepmother, Virginia (Smith) Trexel; a daughter-in-law, Maryann (Tautkaushin) Evans; and a son-in-law, Barry W. Ritchie. Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at JAMES C. STUMP FUNERAL HOME INC., 580 Circle Drive, Rostraver Township, 724-929-7934, www.jamesstumpfuneralhome.com, where a funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday with Elder Thomas Hamer officiating. Interment will follow in Mon Valley Memorial Park.
