John Roger Evans

John R Evans, 82, passed away on Thursday, July 23, 2009 in Sandpoint, ID. John was born in India, son of Dr. Eugene and Jo Evan, who were medical missionaries there. He grew up in the milieu of idyllic Venguria, a coastal village south of Bombay. At six years of age, he began boarding at the multicultural, inernational Kodaikanal School, in south India. At 16 he graduated from High School and traveled alone by ship to the United States to avoid conscription in the British Army. He then attended Williston Academy in Massachusetts, spending summers with family in rural Ohio. He attended Oberlin College,graduating in 1948, and completed Medical School at Case Western Reserve in 1952. He interned in Salt Lake City in 1953, and completed his surgical residency at the Veterans Hospital in Seattle. He married Randi Andreassen in 1955, a Registered Nurse at the Hospital. He is survived by, his wife Randi, his children Jody and David, Timothy and Mary, Peter and Melissa and Nancy and David and six Grandchildren.