Benjamin Doyle Evans

Benjamin Doyle Evans 1941 - 2025

Funeral services for Benjamin Evans were held on Saturday, November 29, 2025 at Sharkey Funeral Home in Summit, at 11AM. Dr. Larry LeBlanc of First Baptist Church of Summit did officiate. Visitation was held from 10AM until 11AM, Saturday morning. Interment followed at the Tylertown City Cemetery.

Benjamin Doyle Evans left to be with his Lord Jesus Christ and reunited with his beloved Pat on Sunday, November 23, at the age of 84. Bennie was born April 3, 1941 in Monroe, LA. He lived in Jackson, most of his early life with brief stints in Mobile, AL and the Stronghope, MS area.

Bennie graduated from Central High School in Jackson in 1959. Immediately following, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corp. Those 4 years had significant impact on the rest of his life. While home on leave to visit his grandfather at the Baptist Hospital in Jackson, he met a student nurse named Patricia, and he was smitten for life. After a single date and a year of long-distance correspondence, Marine Lance Corporal Benjamin Evans returned home to claim his bride.

Their first year of married life was spent at Camp Lejeune, NC until Bennie completed his enlistment. They returned to Summit where they lived the remainder of their 57 years of marriage, raising 2 daughters along the way until Pat left this earth in 2019. Now, Bennie’s greatest desire has been achieved and he and Pat are reunited for eternity.

Bennie was preceded in death by his wife Patricia; his daughter Lynn Williamson; his parents and step parents, Ruby and Marion Overby and Benjamin Frank and Dorothy Evans; brother Archie Evans; sisters Patricia Perez and Jean Baronne and infant sister Shirley Evans.

He leaves behind daughter Beth Robinson (John); grandchildren Lauren Badillo (Stephen), Brandon Robinson (Claire), Cameron Jones (Charlene), and Erynn Williamson; great granddaughters Leya Badillo and Riley Robinson (January 2026); sisters Frances Fair and Joan Vinet; along with a host of beloved family and friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to First Baptist Church of Summit Senior Adults Ministry or the Hattiesburg Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans. Joan Elesha