OSKALOOSA —
B. Louise Frye Chilcote Eveland, 94, of Oskaloosa passed away Sunday morning, Jan. 22, 2012, at Crystal Heights Care Center in Oskaloosa.
Bessie Louise Frye Chilcote Eveland, daughter of Leazure E. and Bessie Jane Denburger Frye, was born, Dec. 12, 1917, near Bussey in Jefferson Township, Mahaska County. Louise’s mother died when Louise was 2 weeks old and she was raised by her great-aunt Belle Fryer. She was a 1936 graduate of Bussey High School. Following her education, Louise worked for neighborhood families with their housekeeping and laundry. Louise married Lewis Chilcote in 1942. While Lewis was stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas, with the Navy; Louise worked in the engraving office on the naval base. After Lewis completed his military duties, they returned to Oskaloosa to raise their two children. Louise and Lewis later divorced. Louise worked for many families in Oskaloosa doing housekeeping and laundry and also Wigg’s Country Store Laundromat. In 1970, Louise married Harold Eveland. He died in April 1986.
Louise was a member of Coal Creek Church and an officer of the Pythian Sisters. She enjoyed traveling, reading, crossword puzzles and her many cats.
Louise’s family includes her daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Stephen Heilman, of Broken Arrow, Okla., and son and daughter-in-law, Lysle and Margaret Chilcote, of Oskaloosa; three grandchildren: Jason Heilman, of Broken Arrow, Okla.; Angela (Doug) Rexroth, of Kirkville, and Robyn (Jeff) Hoppman, of Washington, Iowa; seven great-grandchildren; and a brother, Phillip Frye, of Bussey.
In addition to her parents, Louise was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Mariann Asher.
Funeral Services will be held at 10: 30 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25, at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel with Pastor Alvern Boetsma of the Good News Chapel officiating. Burial will be in Coal Creek Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m., Tuesday, at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel; the family will be present from 5-7 p.m. to greet visitors. Memorials may be made to Iowa Hospice.
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