Lois M Evers

Lois Evers, 97, of Mitchell, formerly of Woonsocket, SD, passed away Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at Avera Brady Health & Rehab in Mitchell. Funeral services will be at 10:30 AM Saturday, November 15, at Letcher Community Center in Letcher, SD, with visitation one hour prior. Burial will be at West Lawn Cemetery in Letcher.

Lois M (Edwards) Evers was born January 9, 1928, to Lloyd and Retta (Bissell) Edwards on a farm north of Letcher. When she was one year old, she moved with her family to Logan Township, north of Letcher. She attended Lakeview School in Logan Township through 8th grade. She then attended Letcher Public School and graduated from high school in 1946. She attended summer school at DWU and graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. Her long teaching career started in a one-room country school in Butler Township. She taught in Sanborn and Davison County rural schools for 4 years, Letcher Public School 7 years, and Mt. Vernon Public School 19 years until she retired in 1993. She may have retired from full-time teaching in 1993, but continued to be a busy substitute teacher in area schools for another 17 years.

On June 18, 1948, she married James Evers at Lewistown, MT. Four sons were born to this union: Dennis, Bob, Everett, and Tim. They lived in the Letcher community until they retired from farming in 2000 and moved to Woonsocket. In 2014, they then moved to Mitchell, SD

She was a member of the Letcher Legion Auxiliary, Women's Fellowship in Letcher, the Senior Citizens group in Letcher, Woonsocket and Mitchell, and several years on the Woonsocket Library Board and Cancer Society.

Those left to mourn her loss are her three sons: Dennis (Patty McCarthy), Bob, and Everett (Jackie); eight grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren; five and a half great-great-grandchildren, with another due in February; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by husband, Jim; son, Tim; daughter-in-law, Janice; sisters, Geraldine and Arlene Hanten; brother, Lyle and wife Faye; brother, Marian, who died in infancy; brother-in-law, Tom Ford, along with many other in-laws.