Funeral services for Evelyn Jean Head age 87 of Hollister will be held at 10:00 AM, Thursday, May 14, 2015 at Greenlawn Funeral Home in Branson with Pastor Phyllis Winzenried officiating. Burial will follow in the Whorton Cemetery at Hollister, Mo.
She died May 11, 2015 at her home in Hollister, Mo.
She was born on July 20, 1927 in Springfield, Colorado the daughter of Harry and Mary Palmer Hazell. She was one of 18 children. She was a homemaker and a lifelong resident of the area and was a member and elder at the Hollister Presbyterian Church. She was united in marriage to Thomas Edwin Head on September 27, 1953.
She is survived by her children: Rebecca (Jim) Tate, Thomas (Elizabeth) Head, and Timothy Head of Hollister, Mark (Michele) Head of Omaha, Arkansas and Mary (Lee) Thake of England, UK; grandchildren: Hope, Jamie, Tom (Phoebe), Larry and Keshia (Jason); great grandchildren: Dane, Zen, Sammie, and Garet; sisters, Lois Jones of Colorado, Iva Arndt of Kansas, Pauline Moran, Betty Stewart, Dee King, Jean Parker and Mary Ward all of Missouri and Dottie Umphres of Arkansas; She was preceded in death by her husband; Thomas E. Head, parents; Harry S. and Mary L. Hazell, and siblings; Sylvia, Phyllis, Vernon, Donald, Dwight, Alva, Edward, Ian and Thornton.
Visitation will be from 6 until 8 PM Wednesday in the funeral home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Hollister Presbyterian Church or Hospice Compassus.