Evelyn J. Fowler, age 91 years, passed away Monday, March 10, 2014 at Golden Living Center-Westwood, Clinton, Missouri. Funeral services will be held 11:00 A.M. Thursday, March 13, 2014 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, Missouri. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions be made to Good Hope Baptist Church and may be left in care of the funeral home. Fond memories and condolences can be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com. Evelyn Jean Franck Fowler was born on March 9, 1923, in the family home in Clinton, Missouri to C.B. and Fyrn Franck. She attended Clinton High School graduating in 1941. She married Edwin Fowler on April 9, 1944 and lived in Missouri all her life, first in the Coal and Clinton area, then Raymore, Peculiar, and Independence areas before retiring back to the Clinton area. She worked various retail jobs from time to time, but her main focus was serving God and the raising of her family. She held many teaching and support positions at the churches where she was a member of—New Salem Baptist in Independence, Missouri and Good Hope Baptist Church in Coal, Missouri. She was church Sunday School secretary for many years at New Salem and at Good Hope. She sent birthday and anniversary cards to all members of the congregation before her health prevented her from attending. She was preceded in death, and is at a reunion in heaven with husband, Edwin; son, Ed; parents, C.B. and Fyrn Franck; two sisters, Elaine Martin and Wilma Franck, and many other relatives and friends. She is survived by and will be missed by her daughter and son-in-law, Don and Sharon Temple of Holly Lake Ranch, Texas; 4 grandchildren, and 5 great-grandchildren: Garrett and Amy Temple and their children, Colin and Landry of Mansfield, Texas; Stacey Temple McCraw and her children, Myka and Cort of Leander, Texas; Kristi and Josh Kruse and their daughter, Birklee of Brookings, South Dakota; Tara (Fowler) McCollough and Zach, of Clinton, Missouri. Other survivors include her sisters; Shirley Hurt of Kirksville, Missouri and Pat Sisk of Grandview, Missouri; sisters-in-law, Merle Howell of Clinton, Missouri and Jewell Fowler of Longview, Washington; brother-in-law, Elvin Fowler of Warrensburg, Missouri, and many nieces and nephews and friends. Arrangements have been entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home of Clinton, Missouri.