Graveside services for Marilyn Sanders Evans, 80, of Sicily Island will be 10 a.m. Thursday, October 14, 2021, in Highland Cemetery with Rev. Joel Williams and Rev. Jon Lord officiating, under the direction of Dennard First National Funeral Home.

Marilyn was born January 27, 1941, in Winnsboro to the union of the late Wilbur Hardy Sanders, Sr. and Mattie Carolyn Martin Sanders and passed from this life on October 12, 2021, at her residence in Sicily Island.

Marilyn was a member of First United Methodist Church, Sicily Island. She graduated from Wisner High School, and went on to attend trade school, afterwards she worked for Bellsouth Telephone Company. She also co-owned The Clothes Rack in Sicily Island with longtime friend Risha Jenkins, before working at Island Pharmacy for 20 plus years. Marilyn was a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband Roy Evans; and son Kevin Evans.

Those left to cherish her memory include her two daughters Kristi Wright and husband Ken of Winnsboro and Kellie Ford and husband Tim of Sicily Island; one daughter-in-law Fran Evans; one brother, W. H. Sanders, Jr. of Winnsboro; four grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.

Online condolences may be made at www.dennardfirstnational.com.

Highland Cemetery