Evelyn E. Hoxworth

Evelyn E. Hoxworth Florida Age 93, formerly of Battle Creek. Evelyn Hoxworth's two sets of grandparents lived in Derby, England. Her parents George and Annie Wood immigrated to the United States in 1910, settling in Battle Creek, in a small community called Brownlee Park. Evelyn was born January 14, 1917, and already had a three year old brother, George. The family moved to Chicago, Illinois area when the children were very young. She attended school and graduated from two years of college with a degree in teaching. She taught for three years in a small country one room school boarding with farmers. Evelyn had known Warren Hoxworth for many years as his family lived in the same Brownlee Park community, but when romance bloomed, Warren proposed and they were married in 1930. Consumers Power Company transferred Warren to Lansing, MI, and worked for 37 years retiring in 1973. They settled at Traveler's Rest Airstream Park and enjoyed 20 years of retirement together. Warren died in 1993. Two children were born to them, a daughter, Ruthann Wolthuis now living in Ionia, MI, raising three grandchildren, Sheri Stoner, Susan Hooper and Steve Wolthuis and a total of seven great-grandchildren. A son Roy lives in Dunnellon, Florida working for Hospice of Marion County in Ocala. He had two children, a daughter Erin killed in an automobile accident in 1992 and Tate, a son living with his family of four little girls in Greer, South Carolina. Evelyn lived in Zephyrhills, Florida 17 years and was a member of Temple Baptist Church. Evelyn's brother George was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was killed in Alaska. Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m., Wednesday April 28, 2010, at the Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel in Battle Creek. Visitation will be held at the cemetery chapel from 1:30 p.m. until service time. Arrangements by the Richard A. Henry Funeral Home.