Sidney Horace Evans

GREENSBORO — Dr. Sidney Horace Evans passed away on Thursday, July 17, 2008, at Guilford Healthcare following several months of declining health.

Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, July 24, at Providence Baptist Church, 1106 Tuscaloosa St. Interment will follow at the State Veterans Cemetery in Salisbury.

Dr. Evans was born January 27, 1920, in Glouster County, Va., to the late Horace and Lucy Evans. He served in combat in World War II while a member of the United States Army. He received his B.S. in economics from Virginia State University and his M.S. from Iowa State University in agricultural and general economics. Dr. Evans was awarded his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Ohio State University.

While he serving as supervisor of on-farm training programs in Fort Valley, Georgia, he met and married Alma Coney Johnson.

Accepting a position at A & T College they moved to Greensboro. During his tenure at A & T, he advanced from Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics to the Chairperson of the Department of Economics to Chairperson Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and finally Research Director and Associate Dean of Agricultural Research. Through his efforts, a learning research laboratory was established in the School of Business and Economics through a National Science Foundation grant. He was successful with another grant that resulted in the establishment of the Transportation Institute at NC A & T State University. During the period that he served as Chair of Economics, a transportation minor and major were developed. During his career with the school, he also served on a four person advisory consulting team that went to Khartoum, Sudan to look at the feasibility of the United States Agency for International Development in developing the New University of Gezira. He also served as a visiting professor for two years at the University of Mekerere in Uganda (during the reign of dictator Idi Amin) and the University of Nairobi in Kenya.

While Dr. Evans was the author of numerous publications, research projects and grants, his proudest prof tonal award was winning the George Washington Carver Public Service Award and his induction into the Carver Hall of Fame at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. He served on many national, regional and local boards and committees.

Before illness prevented, he was a devoted member of Providence Baptist Church, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and several professional organizations.

He was preceded in death by his wife, and most recently his sister, Mrs. Marion Washington of Washington, D.C.

He is survived by his son, Sidney, Jr., (Bebra) of Washington, D.C.; and stepdaughter, Brenda Johnson Bishop (George) of Greensboro; grandchildren, G. David Bishop, III, Morgan and Taylor Evans; and great- grandchildren, CaNesha Murphy and Kaelin Bishop; nieces, Rev. Albertine C. Rouse (Bob), Los Angeles, Calif., Alta Boot (John), Washington, D.C.; and nephew, Levi Wright (Patricia), Greensboro; and other relatives and countless friends.

Visitation will be immediately prior to the service at 10:30 a.m.

The family wishes to thank the staff in the Palliative Unit of Moses Cone Memorial Hospital and Guilford Healthcare for their excellent care and attention during his final days.

In lieu of flowers, the family request that a donation be made in his name to the Howard Allen Chubbs Family Enrichment Center or to Palliative and Hospice Care of Greensboro.

Funeral services entrusted to Perry J. Brown Funeral Home.

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