Graveside funeral services for Leona Faye John Evans will be 1:00 p.m. Thursday, November 29, 2018 at Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

A Visitation will be held on Thursday, November 29 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 pm at the funeral home.

Leona Faye John Evans, 91, of Austin, Texas, formerly Palm Harbor, Florida, passed Monday, November 19, 2018 at St. Mark Village in Palm Harbor, Florida.

Leona was born in Lawton Oklahoma, where she attended Lawton High School. She was a Civil Service Procurement Contractor at Fort Sill for 20 years.  Leona was active in the community serving as a volunteer at Memorial Hospital in Lawton, the Business Women's Association, and as an advocate for children for the county court.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Francis and Rosa John; husbands, Harold Evans and Russell Fisher; brothers, Marvin and Francis John and sister, Jewel Bundy.

Leona is survived by her daughters, Marilyn and her husband Mike Rodriguez and Jeannine and her husband Eddie Merritt; grandchildren, Reyna Enoch, Lara Gazi, Amy Dykes, Heather  Blount and Nathan Merritt; great-grandchildren, Tyson Blount, Corbin and Mikey Enoch, Liam, Ava and Olivia Gazi, and Rafael Logue, Lathan and Lanie Merritt.