Evelyn Potts

Evelyn Bernice Potts, 74, died of natural causes on Friday, June 7, 2013.Services are at Simms Community Church on Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Schnider Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.Evelyn was born April 4, 1939 to Clyde and Mildred Potts in Lewistown, Montana.She attended school at Stanford Grade School until 1949.She completed her high schooleducation at Montebello High School in Montebello, CA in 1957 while living with her Aunt Inez and Uncle Vernon Maxson.She attended one year at San Jose Bible College with aspirations to become a foreign missionary.She became a wife in 1958 and later became a mother to Lauri and Wesley.Her aspirations were revised to become a good mother to her children.Later, she remarried and moved to Vermont.Evelyn was later blessed with three more childrenJulie, Marc, and Raymond.She worked as a full timemother and was instrumental in helping build one of the largest construction companies in the NewEngland area.Having a passion for learning, Evelyn went back to school and earned her Bachelor Degree from Johnson State College in 1983.She was a whiz with numbers and had an innate businesssense.She enjoyed skiing with her children, cooking, horseback riding, farming, reading books, and sewing. All of her grandchildren have the benefit of at least one hand sewn item from their Nana.Evelyn is survived by her two siblings, Catherine of San Diego, and Clyde of Great Falls.She is also survived by her five children, Lauri of Florida, Wesley of Colorado, Julie of Vermont, Marc of South Dakota and Ray of Montana.She was greatly loved by her ten grandchildren Colt, Raleigh, Sable, Natalie, Benjamin, Hannah, Jeffrey, Jenna, Andre and Dylan and the spouses of her children, as well as many nieces and nephews.Evelyn moved back to Montana in 2001, loving the wide open plains and the wheat fields of her youth.She felt blessed to be able to see her two siblings, Gene and Clyde, as well as her sister Catherine who visited often from California.She deeply and lovingly touched our hearts and will be greatly misssed.