SABA President David Evans : AN UNCOMMON LEADER
By June Moynihan and David Evans
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here is no doubt that David Evans is the product of Jerry Evans and Patricia Sue "Pat" Carey. Jerry and Pat met in Nashville, Tennessee, where both were doing post-graduate work. Jerry, having completed a degree in philosophy at Southwestern in Memphis, Tennessee, was studying for his Masters of Divinity at Vanderbilt, with a plan to be a Methodist minister. Pat was from Corpus Christi, attending Scarritt College for Christian Workers, after graduating from what was then Texas A&I in Kingsville. Both had been raised in the Methodist Church, with similar Sunday morning rituals. Jerry’s father, Dillard, would dutifully drop Jerry, his sister June, and family matriarch Mary at church every Sunday morning and then go fishing with his buddies. Many a weekend, Pat and her brother Carson would go to church with their mother Ila, while father Everett was “praying” from a deer stand somewhere in the Texas Hill Country. It was from their time in their respective pews that Pat and Jerry learned of two important tenets of the Methodist faith: that followers must use logic and reason in all matters of faith, and that ministering to others is one’s highest calling. As a pair, Jerry and Pat were the epitome of this ethos and made the perfect team. Jerry was quiet and contemplative, eschewing small talk in favor of eternal existential questions, much like his mother, Mary. Indeed, while David has no memories of his other grandparents from his childhood, Mary was a huge influence in his life, visiting him from Memphis for a couple of weeks every year. Though such visits were short in comparison to the time many children have with their grandparents, Mary made up for it with long “chats” with David about issues big and small, worldly and otherwise. David and his wife, Katie Evans, M.D. photographed for San Antonio Lawyer in North Carolina by Nathan Baerreis 6 San Antonio Lawyer | sabar.org
