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Evelyn “Louise” Chance, age 78, went to be with the Lord on December 8, 2017 just 3 months away from her 79th birthday. Born March 21, 1939, in a town called Massie, Texas. Mother was the sixth child of nine children. Her parents Lee Chance and Della Mae Tate Chance. Mother was a baker. Some of the relatives would come by mom’s house and eat pineapple cake, sweet potato pie, lemon pies, and her pound cake. She was a strong woman who raised her children not to be selfish. She was the matriarch of our family. Mother enjoyed church, was a prayer warrior, and she cleaned the church. She was a District Hospitality President for about 2 years. She sang in the choir at her home church in Ogden, Utah, and was a lead vocalist. She was saved under Late Pastor Elder S.V. Miller of Emmanuel Church of God in Christ in Ogden Utah. When she left Utah, she came back to San Angelo, Texas and joined Deliverance Tabernacle Church of God in Christ under Superintendent Kenneth Weatherspoon. Mother believed in laying on of hands, and blessed oil. She was a lively stone.
Evelyn is preceded in death by sons Larry Darnell Chance and Noel Russell Chance, her parents, Brothers, Robert Chance, James Chance, Charles Chance, Samuel Chance, sisters, Darlene Chance Hammork, Dorothy Chance McNally, Doris Chance Walker, Leona Chance Hurrington.
She leaves to cherish her memory two daughters, Carolyn Lynn Chance, and Della Mae Ward, and one son, Elder Randy Chance; six grandchildren, Christopher Chance, Ayishe Chance, Rashad Chance, Shermell Ward, Jamie Ward, Marissa Wolfe, and two great grandchildren, Xavier Williams and Ja’Quan White, and numerous nieces and nephews.
You are missed mother and we love you so much.
A visitation will be held Thursday, December 14, 2017 from 6 to 8 pm at Harper Funeral Home. A funeral service will be Saturday, December 15, 2017 at 11:00 am at New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ, with burial to follow at Fairmount Cemetery.