Charles “Bill” Arthur Evans, 81, of Laneview, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 after a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Sometimes referred to as “Wild Bill,” he was born in Butylo on April 22, 1941 to Frank Easterly Evans and Susie Dobbins Croxton Evans.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents; his younger sister, Mary-Ann Evans Davis; and younger brother, John “Johnny” Malcomb Evans.
He is survived by his youngest brother, Carl Easterly Evans; his sons, Frank K. Evans and Michael Tom Evans; his nephew, Mark Anthony Evans; four grandchildren, Frank, Thomas, Isabel and Jane Evans; two great-grandchildren, Hayden and Caleb Evans; and great nephews, Wyatt and Kai Evans.
Bill was active in the Central Middlesex Rescue Squad for many years, raised in Bethel Methodist Church, later attended Urbanna United Methodist Church for two decades, then became a member of Glebe Landing Baptist Church.
Bill was instrumental in many of its renovations, was chairmen of the Middlesex County Wetlands Board for a time, he served in the Army in Italy in the early 1960s, and traveled all over Europe. He was a marine contractor, a farmer, an oysterman, and a surveyor in his youth. He was Virginia Amateur Oyster Shucking Champion at the Urbanna Oyster Festival in 1994 . He volunteered for the Boy Scouts of America, the Royal Ambassadors, and Rappahannock Community College. He hiked, spelunked, climbed, drove, canoed, and rafted all over the United States of America. He enjoyed the outdoors, growing a garden of all types of fruit, square dancing, singing in the choir, arrowhead hunting, and repairing the “unrepairable,” meeting new people, and talking about every subject imaginable. His talents were unending and we are going to miss him terribly. He is truly legendary.
There will be a celebration of life for Wild Bill at Glebe Landing Baptist Church on Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. Please, bring your stories of Wild Bill.
