Birth date: Apr 19, 1937 Death date: Aug 29, 2021
Mr. James Ray Evans 84 of Scottsboro passed away Sunday August 29, 2021 at Highlands Medical Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. Mr. Evans was retired from Verizon Telephone where he worked as an installer and repair technician. Mr. E Read Obituary
Sis Iris, I am so very sorry to hear of the passing of your Husband . prayers for you and your family 🙏🏻
I was very Saddened to here of Ray’s passing we became family friends when we moved to Hytop in 1978 I was just 11 years old , our property joined mr. Evens property ray wanted to build a house at Hytop when he retired from the phone company the clayton family hit it right off the bat with mr. Evens I guess for the simple reason no one at Hytop on the back road would give ray a right of way to his property so my my father gave him the Entire 20 feet and all Dad ask for was a place to hunt in years to come. Turns out he never built the house , and we remained friends throughout life although many life changing issues has came and gone,I’ll always treasure our times together, I especially remember every day after school and a lot of weekends help him tote would burn burn piles and cleaned up with tractor and dozer, that was a big highlight of my life ! As soon as the bus let me off if mom wood let me I would get on my bike and head back in the woods to find ray working and Donna sometimes would be sitting in that little odd color Datsun truck, we talk for ever, and Donna would always ask me to pop Willys our jump a hill even though she was unable to ride she got so much joy from watching me, I remember so many things to share, I remember in January 1981 one night Ray and Dowell Holloway pulled up in the yard in that ole blue jeep only to have a spike and an 8 point strapped to the hood that Dowel had killed. Ray was very stern with some but was a great Mentor to many young people . Ray just had to like you and if he didn’t you was a friend for life. I’m not to good at these things but I will miss him dearly he loved his family and thought his grandkids and great grandchildren was the wold to him . I remember him being there for me in 97 at the funeral home at skyline when momma lay there and Ray’s just wasn’t the funeral going type. I’m gonna close now my god rest your soul my friend and my god bless the Evens family
Sincerely Phillip Clayton
So sorry to hear this. He was a good one. You all are in our thoughts and prayers….Terri, Nickie, and Dale
