[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 29, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E700]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       REMEMBERING EVELYN CARSON

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 29, 2020

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, Evelyn S. (Edwards) 
Carson, better known to her friends and neighbors in New Bern as Evelyn 
Edwards, died peacefully at her home in Greenwich, CT, on Tuesday 
evening. Mrs. Carson, until her retirement from Civil Service, was a 
budget analyst at NARF, located at the Marine Corps Air Station in 
Cherry Point, NC. Evelyn was the widow of her childhood sweetheart, 
Henry Walton Edwards who was the father of her only child, Linda 
Edwards McMahon. She subsequently married John Carson and was also his 
widow. Mrs. Carson moved to Connecticut to be closer to Linda and her 
husband Vince, their two children, Shane, his wife Marissa; Stephanie 
and her husband, Paul. She was either at the hospital or there within 
minutes when all six of her great-grandchildren were born. Mrs. Carson 
was 93 years of age and by all accounts of everyone who knew her, lived 
her life to the fullest and urged everyone to do the same.
  In addition to her immediate family, Mrs. Carson is survived by her 
brother Lawrence Strickland of Virginia Beach, VA, and sister, Cindy 
McHone of Knoxville, TN, and many nieces and nephews.
  In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations be made in 
Evelyn's Memory to The Connor's Cure Fund, c/o Children's Hospital 
Foundation, 4401 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15224 or at 
givetochildrens.org/donate.
  Visitation was held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Sunday, July 5, 2020 
at Cotten Funeral Home, followed by Her funeral service at 1:00 p.m. in 
the chapel. Burial followed Greenleaf Memorial Park.

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