George Edward Evans Jr.

EVANS, George Edward Jr., 86, widower of Josephine Collins Evans, Woodland Ave., retired coal executive, died Mon., May, 9 2005. Born in Charleston, WV, he was the son of the late George Edward and Nell Harrington Evans, and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He was currently a Trustee of Transylvania University, a member of the McDowell Cancer Foundation Executive Committee, Cathedral of Christ the King and the Idle Hour Country Club. He had formerly served as Secretary of the Kentucky Energy Cabinet under Gov. Martha Lane Collins and Special Assistant to the Governor for Coal and Energy under Gov. Wallace Wilkinson and was Past President of Coal Development Division of National Steel Corporation, National Mines Corporation and Evans Industries. He was also a former member the Kentucky State Racing Commission, National Coal Council, Mississippi Valley Coal Exporters Association, Kentucky Mining Engineering Foundation, University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research, Western Research Institute, American Mining Congress, Big Sandy Coal Operators' Association, and was Chairman of the Kentucky Coal Association. He had also served on the Boards of The Lexington School, Alice Lloyd College, Prestonsburg Community College, Appalachian Regional Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital and the East Kentucky Development Corporation. He had served as Chairman of The Bank of Lexington and Liberty National Bank-Lexington. Because of his many major contributions to the coal industry, he was named Coal Man of the Year for 1985 by Coal Age Magazine. He is survived by three daughters, Patricia King, Vero Beach, FL, Mary Jo Johnson, Lexington and Jane Hendrickson, Maysville, KY; eight grandchildren, John Edward Johnson, Phillip Christopher Johnson, both of Lexington, Patrick Evans Johnson, Salt Lake City, UT, Nancy Crowley Inman, Charlottesville, VA., Cara Crowley Mulcahy, Atlanta, GA., Neal Joseph Crowley, Jr., Ashville, NC, Mary Jane Hendrickson and Lee Evans Hendrickson both of Lexington, KY. Services 10 am Thurs., May 12 at Christ the King Cathedral with Reverend Paul Prabell officiating. Burial Lexington Cemetery. Friends may call at the W. R. Milward Mortuary - Broadway from 4-8 pm Wed. His grandchildren will serve as casket bearers. Honorary casket bearers will be Stonie Barker, Jr., Hank Farrell, Tammy Kash, Philip Jackson Baugh, John M. McDonald III, Robert E. Milward, Michael N. Prunty, DMD, E. I. Scrivner, DMD, David B. Stevens, MD, Fred B. Wachs, Jr., Phillip D. Scott, and John A. Bell III. Memorials are suggested to Hospice of the Blue Grass, 2312 Alexandria Dr, Lexington, KY 40504 or Ronald McDonald House, 550 Cooper Dr., Lexington, KY 40502. www.milwardfuneral.com