Evelyn Hamner Kuykendall, 92, of Cumberland, N.J., died Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Golden Living Center.
Born May 3, 1919 in Aspen, she was the daughter of the late Alvin Clark H. Milton and Mary C. (Neal) Milton.
She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Ray F. Hamner; her second husband, E. Russell Kuykendall; a daughter, Susan DeHart; a great, granddaughter, baby Katherine Parrott; and, three brothers, Rev. Byron L. Milton, Harold Milton, and Garland Milton.
Kuykendall was a graduate of Aspen High School and Phillips Secretarial College, Lynchburg.
She worked at the Lynchburg Loan Society, Inc., Lynchburg.
Kuykendall went to Cumberland in 1945, when her first husband was made manager of Home Beneficial Life Insurance Company. She was a homemaker and seamstress.
Since 1945, she was a member of the First Baptist Church, Cumberland. She had been superintendent of the Sunday School Beginner Department for many years and served as director of Sunbeams. In 1968, she became church organist, a position she held for over 30 years. Kuykendall was also a member of the Faith Bible Class and the Women’s Missionary Union.
Survivors include her three daughters, Joyce (Hamner) Simpson, and husband Corky, Princess Anne, MD, Carolyn (Hamner) Dillow, and husband Chuck, LaVale, MD, and Candace (Hamner) Todd, and husband Randy, Birmingham, AL; a son-in-law, Lynn DeHart, Cumberland; three step-sons, E. Russell Kuykendall, Jr., and wife Norma, Derwood, MD, Michael J. Kuykendall, Gaithersburg, MD, and Jeffrey L. Kuykendall, and wife Karole, Cumberland; one brother, Herbert C. Milton, and wife Cookie, Aspen, VA; one sister, Edna Lacy Scott, Aspen, VA; 14 grandchildren, Matthew Dillow, Eric Oster, Amy (Dillow) Pyle, Jill (Simpson) Parrott, Marcus Oster, Cassie (Dillow) Simpson, Christopher Simpson, Mary Evelyn Todd, Elizabeth Todd, Stephen Todd, Anna Kirsten Todd, Karen (Kuykendall) Grace, Taunie Faidley Buckley, and Arianne DeHart Munoz; and, several great, grandchildren whom she dearly loved.
“ Her children arise and call her blessed. . .” We, her family and friends were blessed to be loved and influenced for good by her kind, patient example of Christ centered living.
What faithfulness! What a work ethic! What example of duty/character and purposeful living and joy in the journey! We are the richer for her life!
The funeral service was conducted on Tuesday April 3, 2012 in Grace Baptist Church, 211 Greene St., Cumberland at 11 a.m., with the Pastor Mark Dillow of Crossroad Bible Church, Bedford, Pa., officiating.
Interment took place in Sunset Memorial Park.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church, 212 Bedford St., Cumberland, Md., 21502.
Condolences to the family may be posted after Kuykendall’s obituary at www.upchurchfh.com.