Evelyn Frances Curry's Obituary
Graveside services for Evelyn Frances Curry, 92, of DeRidder, LA, will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at the Hopewell Cemetery in DeRidder with Rev. George Lee Glass and Rabbi Dale Howard officiating.
Evelyn was born on September 2, 1931 in Silsbee, Texas to her parents Francis Jewel and Evelyn Kyle Harvill Hignett. She passed away on Saturday, March 23, 2024 in DeRidder, Louisiana.
Mrs. Curry taught piano and worked for the phone company. She loved to write poetry and music. Evelyn was married to “the boy next door “for 55 years.
She is preceded in death by her parents: Francis and Evelyn Hignett; husband: James B. Curry; children: Cynthia Lynette Austin, Brenda Kyle DeHart, James Franklin Curry, Charles David Curry, Patricia Elaine Curry, Steven Earl Curry.
Left to cherish her memory are her daughter: Mary C. Edwards of the Woodlands, TX; adopted son: Gregory Earl Curry of DeRidder, LA; siblings: Dian Dwyer of Porter, TX, Frank Hignett of Corsicana, TX; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren: a host of other family and friends.
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