Evan R. Soule', 81 years of age, passed from this world on April 21, 2006. He was born on October 9, 1924 in New Orleans where he was a lifelong resident until he moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas following Hurricane Katrina.
Son of the late George and Mary Brooks Soule' of New Orleans, he attended Tulane University and was a WWII veteran who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the "Hell's Angels" 303rd Bomb Group, 358 Bombardment Squadron, stationed at Molesworth, England. Operating as
a tail gunner in a B-17 "Flying Fortress" aircraft, he completed 35 missions over wartime Europe.
Following honorable discharge from the Army Air Corps, he worked as Secretary-Treasurer at Soule' College in New Orleans which was founded by his great-grandfather, Col. George Soule’, in 1856 to became the oldest business college in the South. He worked in that position until the
closing of Soule' College in 1984.
He will be missed by Joan Prickett Soule', his beloved wife of 57 years, his son Evan R. Soule', Jr. and wife Jennifer, and grandson Ian, all recently moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas from New Orleans, Louisiana. He will also be missed by his daughter, Roxanne Marcianti, her husband, Greg, and their daughter, Sienna Rose of Melbourne, Australia.
He will always be remembered for his loving kindness to his family and friends, his wonderful sense of humor, and his sincere and quiet generosity unto all he encountered along life's journey.
Evan truly lived a quality life in accord with those words from the bard of bards:
"To thine own-self be true, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou can'st not then be false to any man."
Services will be held at 2:00pm, Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at the Davis-Smith Funeral Home, 2205 Airport Road, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Interment will follow at Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Guest registry is at www.davissmithfuneralhome.com.
