EVERS HARPER BOAZ (1908-1983)
Evers Harper Boaz was born on August 10, 1908, in Union City, Tennessee. He grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he was a Boy Scout, attended Oklahoma City schools, and graduated from Central High School in 1927. He was President of the Booster Club in 1927 and a member of the Ciceronian Debating Society, asocial club. He was Master Councilor of the Order of DeMolay. He worked for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, paint and glass manufacturer (1927-67), mainly in sales. He managed the branch store in Salina, Kansas, fora time.
Evers Harper married Alice Josephine Miller (1914-
1996) in Oklahoma City on November 2, 1935. They moved to Enid, Oklahoma, where John Knox was born on June 7, 1938. The family moved back to Oklahoma City for six months before Evers was transferred to
Salina, Kansas. The family lived in Salina for nine years where twins, David Evers and Robert Howard were born on December 5,
1943. Evers was active in community affairs there, a member of the Optimist Club and the Mariners Club of the First Presbyterian Church. The family moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, in January of
1951 and lived therefor two years before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they lived between 1954 and 1980. Evers and Alice were members of John Knox Presbyterian Church where
Evers was a Ruling Elder for four years and an adult Sunday Schoolteacher. Evers was Co-Chair of the Commercial Division of the United Way, and in retirement from Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company he worked as a safety instructor for the Tulsa Area Safety Council and as a bailiff for the County Court.
Evers and Alice moved to Port Saint Lucie, Florida, in July of 1980. They were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Stuart, Florida. Evers had an outgoing personality. He never meta stranger. He was a kind and caring person who loved his family and friends. He was an amateur photographer, and he enjoyed listening to classical music on his high fidelity, and later, stereo equipment.
Evers Harper died on March 8, 1983, and he is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, along with Alice Josephine Miller Boaz who died April 20, 1996.
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