Obituary of Donna Singleton Evins

Donna passed peacefully at her home.  She is preceded in death by her Mother, Kathleen Badgett Singleton, her Daddy, Don Emery Singleton, her brother, Emery Singleton and a granddaughter, Mary Margaret Jennings. 

She is survived by her brother, Larry (Pandy) Singleton, her children, Daina (Phillip) Warren, Meacham (Ladonna) Evins, Kate (Bob) Page, Betsy (Bubba) Jennings and Joe Evins.  She also will be remembered with so much love by her adoring grandchildren, Danny (Brooke) Warren, Will Warren, Woody (Warryn) Evins, Brian Evins, Donna Marie Evins, Sam Page, Maggie Page, Mallory Jennings, Madeline Jennings, Molly Jennings, Merritt Jennings, Kathleen Evins, and Caroline Evins. 

At our mother’s bequest, we are having a private burial. We all believe that she has already preached her funeral with the beautiful way she lived her life. We would ask that you all remember our precious mother as the beautiful, laughing, loving, giving person that we were all so blessed to know.  She showed each of us how life is supposed to be lived, and had the amazing talent of making us all feel like we were all her “favorite”.  We will miss her forever.

The Dash

I read of a man who stood to speak

At the funeral of a friend

He referred to the dates on her tombstone

From beginning to the end.

He noted that first came the date of her birth

And spoke the following date with tears,

But he said what mattered most of all

Was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time

That she spent alive on earth.

And now only those who loved her

Know what that little line was worth.

For it matters not how much we own;

The cars, the house, the cash,

What matters is how we live and love

And how we spend our dash.