Evelyn O. Austin

MOTHER EVELYN JONES AUSTIN was born on April 24, 1913 in Chance, Maryland to the late Mary V. Wilson Jones and the late Samuel M. Jones. On July 24, 2008, it was Evelyn’s time to begin the last phase of her journey, so God called her home at the Charles Village Future Care Center following a short illness. Mother Evelyn was educated in the Somerset County Public School System. She was married to the late Henry Austin. Mother Evelyn joined the Supreme Council of the House of Jacob Inc. and remained a member until her death. She first came to Baltimore at an early age. In her earlier years, she was the owner of her very own restaurant “Evelyn’s Lunch,” at 714 N. Ensor St. She had later gone to work at the Ginger Ale Hyrock Co., the Baltimore Gas, and the Electric Company. Her working career ended due to a car accident after more than twenty years at Joe’s Lunch, at 325 N. High St. The place was owned by Mr. Joseph Genco, an Italian. Mother Evelyn was very independent. She was very outspoken. “If she thought it or felt it, you heard it.” During her lifetime she made evervone welcome to her home and they never left without a home-cooked meal. She could cook any meal without a measuring cup or cookbook. Mother Evelyn was preceded in death by her two sisters, Sister Doris Jones Holmes and Advanced Senior Mother Myrtle Jones Morris, and four brothers, Brother Milton Jones Sr., Brother Frizell Jones, Presiding Elder Percy Jones Sr., and Brother Elmer Jones Sr.; and two grandchildren, Walter A. Broughton and Charrisa Jones. She leaves to mourn: her devoted daughter, Sister Gloria Jones Bullock; devoted son, Presiding Elder Austin Jones; devoted daughter-in-law, Senior Mother Marion Jones; two sisters-in-law, Sister Thelma Jones and Sister Ruth Jones; grandchildren, Mrs. Mahalia A. Jones Brown, Mrs. Jacquelyn D. Poole Fisher, Mr. William L. Poole III, Mrs. Julia A. Jones Thompson, Mrs. Lisa K. Jones Coleman, Mrs. Monica Jones Scott, Mr. Leslie T. Bullock Jr.; great-grandchildren, Adrienne J. Poole, Jacquelyn J. Jackson, Mackenzie Jackson, Jessica J. Graves, Christopher Ivory Jr., Donte L. Scott, Takiara M. Bullock, Daron Jones, Darrell Jones, Malcolm Olds, Shayla Brown, Claude Brown, Chanelle Scott, Myles Scott, Blake Coleman, Byron Coleman; great-great-grandchildren, Davon M. Montgomery, Shavon J. Montgomery, Bobbie M. Scott, Adrian Scott, Shamar Scott, Abdul M. Little, Corey Jackson, Jasmine Washington, Tracey Hughes, Vara M. Jackson, Makaylia Jackson, Kayla Jones and Spencer Jones.

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Evelyn O. Austin

April 24, 1913 - July 24, 2008