Leon Evans
Published February 7, 2014
A celebration of life, honoring the memory of former Enumclaw resident Leon Evans, is planned for 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 22, at the Buckley Eagles. It is a potluck event.
He died Feb. 7, 2014, after falling from a piece of heavy equipment at a Department of Transportation maintenance camp on the Dalton Highway in Alaska. He had worked for DOT for 10 years as an equipment operator and journeyman, although his heart was in logging.
He is survived by wife Bernice of Fairbanks; sons Shane Evans and wife Kelly of Fairbanks and Dustyn Evans and wife Danielle of Buckley; mother Betty Mattioda of Montana:, sisters Cookie Arrants and husband Stan of Montana, Mitzi Wimer and husband Butch of Tacoma and Margie Wiscarson of Bremerton, Wash.; brother Bruce Evans of California; Bing Markus of Palmer; and five grandchildren.