Evelyn Parmerlee

Evelyn Elizabeth Hays Parmerlee, age 89, of Cave Junction, died Monday, November 19, 2018 as the result of an automobile accident in Cave Junction.

The family held a private service will Illinois Valley Funeral Directors in charge of arrangements.

She was born to Clyde and Edith (Holland) Hays on April 3, 1929 in Weed, California. She was raised in Cave Junction and attended Kerby Union High School. In 1945 she married Roy Wesley Parmerlee in Grants Pass and the couple raised their four children in Cave Junction. Evelyn worked several places and she worked helping her husband at the service station; and at the Junction Inn as a cook.

She especially enjoyed all her extended family throughout the Illinois Valley area. She was just returning from the Senior Center where she was a member and played cards twice a week when the accident occurred. She enjoyed breakfast and meals on Sundays at the center.

She also enjoyed flower gardening at her home. She loved the wildlife and would often feed them. She enjoyed playing pinochle and canasta at the homes of her friends.

Survivors include her three children, Donna Harney of Vancouver, Washington, Mark Parmerlee of Cave Junction, and Steve Parmerlee of El Cajon, California; brother, Jay Hays of Grants Pass; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and many great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband Roy Parmerlee in 1997; her daughter Eva Mitchell; and her grandson Clinton Harney.