Joanne Marie Evans

Published 7:00 pm Friday, July 12, 2013

Funeral services for Joanne Marie Evans of Brookhaven are 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, at Brookhaven Funeral Home on Natchez Drive, with burial in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church Cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Evans, 57, died July 10, 2013 at King’s Daughters Medical Center. She was born in Brookhaven on Aug. 2, 1955.

Subscribe to our free email newsletter

Get the latest news sent to your inbox

She was a grocery store manager and a member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. She loved fishing, camping, riding on the back of a Harley, cooking, gardening, music, dancing and grilling out. She spent most of her life in Maryland and loved crabbing off of a pier and boating.

Preceding her in death were her daughter, Hope Smith, and Brother, Michael Abbott.

Survivors are her parents, John Demico and Margaret Johnson; daughter, Janice Smith; sister, Janet Seidl; and two grandchildren, Corey Smith and Peyton Byers.