Wendy Pfeifer Evans

Evans, Wendy Pfeifer - age 56, of Knoxville died Saturday, September 22,2012 at her home surrounded by her family following a four year and ten month courageous battle with inflammatory breast cancer. Born February 7, 1956 in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Doris Hilliard Pfeifer of Portersville, PA and the late Richard Ardelle Pfeifer. A 1974 graduate of Slippery Rock High School, Wendy lived in Virginia Beach, VA for twenty years where she worked for Priority Health Care and later received her B.A. Degree in Business Administration from Virginia Wesleyan University in 1993. Moving to Greeneville, Tennessee with her family in 2001, Wendy and her husband, Russell, worked with the Tennessee Baptist Children's Home and were active members of First Baptist Church of Greeneville. In 2006, the family moved to Knoxville where she worked with Sun Trust Bank prior to her illness and are members of Grace Baptist Church. Even though the past four years and ten months have been difficult, Wendy persevered. She had great faith in her Lord, loved her boys, enjoyed family vacations, and had a passion for for taking care of children. " I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" 2 Timothy 4:7. Surviving in addition to her mother, is her husband of sixteen years, Russell Alan Evans, and their sons, Seth Alan Evans and Simon Douglas Evans, all of the home; her brother, Douglas Wayne Pfeifer of Portersville, Pa; her father and mother-in-law, Robert F. and Mary Helen Sharp Evans of Kingsport, TN; a sister-in-law, Sharon Evans Ervin, her husband, Michael, and their children, Bradley, Shelby and Emily, all of Kingsport; a brother-in-law, Michael Evans, his wife, Karen and their daughters, Katie and Taylor, all of St. Augustine, Fl. Two aunts, Marjorie Hilliard Stephenson and Lois Hilliard Bauder, and three cousins, Tammy Bauder, Zane Stephenson and Lorraine Schumacher also survive. A Celebration of Wendy's Life will be held Sunday afternoon, September 23 at 4 o'clock at the Grace Baptist Church with the Reverend Michael Thomas and the Reverend Larry Sharp officiating. The family will receive friends from 2:20 until 3:45 p.m. prior to the service and also afterwards at the Grace Baptist Church, 7171 Oak Ridge Highway, Knoxville. Committal services will be held Monday morning at 11 o'clock at the Oak Ridge Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully request memorial contributions be made to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America Mary Brown Stevenson Scholarship Fund in memory of Wendy Evans, 10109 East 79th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133 or to the Grace Christian Academy, 5914 Beaver Ridge Road, Knoxville, Tennessee 37931-2705. Online condolences may be made to the Evans family at www.rosemortuary.com. Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

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Wendy Pfeifer Evans

February 7, 1956 - September 22, 2012