Happy Birthday!
Evelyn Greer Whiting was born on May 27, 1922 to Thomas Lacy Greer and Nellie Martha Thomas. Evelyn was born and raised in St. Johns, Arizona. She remembers living out at the Hunt Ranch as a child, and also tells of living next door to her Grandpa and Grandma Greer in St. Johns. Evelyn married her high school sweetheart Fernard Carvel Whiting on September 20, 1944. They were married in St. Johns in the home of President Levi Udall. They were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Templeon February 13, 1965. They had three children: Carvel Thomas, Bobbie Jean, and Korliss. She has eight grandchildren, ten great children, and three great-great grandchildren.
Evelyn has lived in St. George, Utah, for the past four years with her granddaughter Rachel. She still enjoys going to the temple weeklyand being a visiting teacher. Evelyn also enjoys going home to St. Johns in the summer to get out of the St. George heat, and see her many friend and family. She especially enjoys spending time with her sisters Elaine, Betty,and her baby brother Garth. In recent years she has enjoyed a cruise to Mexico with her sister Elaine, visiting grandchildren and great grandchildren in California, and going to General Conference in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City.
-by Rachel Bates
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