Funeral services for Evelyn Pylant, 94, of Crowville, LA will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 19, 2022, at Hill Ridge Baptist Church with Rev. Jimmy Harper officiating. Interment will follow in Crowville Masonic Cemetery under the direction of Dennard First National Funeral Home. Visitation will be 5 - 8 p.m. Monday April 18, 2022, at the funeral home.Evelyn was born July 19, 1927 in Lawrence County, MS to the union of the late Charles T. Polk and the late Dora Hedgepeth Polk and passed from this life on April 16, 2022, at Legacy Nursing Center in Winnsboro, LA. In 1943 Evelyn's family moved to Franklin Parish, LA where she spent most of the rest of her life. In October 1944, they moved to the Hill Ridge Community near Crowville; there she met her husband -to-be, Harvey Pylant, they were married in 1946.Evelyn was a lifelong member of Hill Ridge Baptist Church. She loved working in the church; teaching Sunday school and work with the youth groups with her husband. She also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the church, as well as Church Clerk and on the hostess committee. In 1974 she began working for Raley Brothers in Crowville and worked there for 20 years. After retiring, she did volunteer work at the hospital as a Pink Lady, ABWA, and Council on Aging. She enjoyed traveling, working in her yard, her small orchard, and gardening. Later she had to give up gardening and most of the yard work. She loved pretty flowers and tried to have some blooming most of the year. She also enjoyed cooking and having her children come 'back home' to visit. They all tried to be there at least for all the holidays. Also after retiring she enjoyed traveling; first with a group of ladies from Winnsboro and Crowville and later she was invited to join her husband's shipmates for their annual reunion. She said she has seen lots of 'God's beautiful handwork' as well as meeting lots of friends. She says she has had a lot of sorrows in her life' losing her first baby, her husband after 33 years of marriage, her parents and four brothers, yet she says she has really been blessed.She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her son Harvey Eugene Pylant; her daughter, Kathy Ann Pylant; daughter-in-law, Charlotte Pylant; great grandson, Asher Carraway; four brothers and three sisters-in-law.Those left to cherish her memory include three sons: Jerry Pylant of Shreveport, Bill Pylant and Dennis Pylant both of Crowville; six grandchildren: Ginger Bliss, Jaime Pylant, Jadi Pylant, Shannon Henderson, Shonnie Dickins, and Shelley Carraway; 13 great grandchildren; a host of other relatives and friends.Pallbearers will be Will Bliss, Larry Cassidy, Lynn Cassidy, Donnie Harper, Larry Jackson, and Gordon Raley.Honorary pallbearers will be the men of Hill Ridge Baptist Church.Online condolences may be made at www.dennardfirstnational.com.
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