Charlotte Anne Evert

Charlotte Anne EvertApril 24, 1926 February 24, 2016 ,Another pioneer has been called to her reward. Gods faithful servant Charlotte, positively and significantly influenced every heart she touched. A splendid lady with friends wherever she found herself, rich in the blessing of service and helpfulness, Charlotte was called home on February 24 (the date of her beloved Mothers Birthday). How sweet it is for those who mourn to know she has just stepped out into another room of golden beauty and lasting joy to be in the presence of a loving Savior whom she loved and served through life. Though the parting must be sad when loving ties are broken, we may have the consolation that our earthly loss has made Heaven the richer. ,As the youngest of seven children, Charlotte Lindskog treasured her parents and older siblings. She grew up very close to her sister Minnie, (less than two years older), and also enjoyed very special relationships with her older sisters, Bernice (five years older), and Beulah (thirteen years older). Her brothers Donald (nine years older) and John (seven years older) were also very close to Charlotte. Charlottes older brother, Arthur, would have been eleven years older but was taken to the Lord at the age of six, five years before Charlotte was born. As a young lady, Charlotte worked on the family farm in Geddes, South Dakota. Henry Lindskog, Charlottes Dad, came from Sweden and started the first Lutheran Church in the area. He and Charlottes Mom, Selma, would pick people up for church using their horse and buggy. Charlotte remembered how fun it was when they would heat up bricks for the floor of the horse drawn sled and get under a heavy blanket during the winter time to stay warm.Charlotte often spoke of her Mom and Dads faith, generosity, and love for their neighbors, particularly during the hard times of the depression. When she was little, Charlottes brother Donald wrote about the time a stranger, down on his luck, came to the house wanting some food. He wrote, Mama made him a lunch and we were all sitting around the listening to some fine lies. Charlotte was sitting on Dads lap real quiet. After one of the better lies, Charlotte, sitting on Dads lap said softly, Major Hoople! Do you remember the Major Hoople cartoon? I can still hear Dad laugh. Comparing the chatty house guest to the class=st1 grandiose comic strip character who told tall-tales in , long-winded discourse which nobody took seriously must have captured the moment perfectly. Charlotte was blessed with a subtle knack for quickly understanding who she was dealing with. ,For all her kindness, humility, and generosity, Charlotte is also loved for her optimistic smile, her love of a good laugh, and her lively sense of humor. Her quick wit, like her sister Minnie, and sister Bernie, could have a little sarcasm for good measure when required. The times and the work were hard, but the Lindskog children would grow up feeling loved and strong in faith. They moved to Tangent, Oregon when Charlotte was thirteen. She would go on to receive excnal grades, become an expert baton twirling majorette, a cheerleader, and class valedictorian in 1943, then attended Oregon State University. Her picture appeared in the local newspaper as, pretty Charlotte Lindskog, (an understatement). Charlotte volunteered with her Mother Selma and Sisters Minnie and Bernice serving home cooked meals to the boys going off to war at the nearby USO center. Charlotte talked about the tears in the boys eyes, being so young and homesick, how they all called Selma, Mom, and how much they loved her cooking. She also remarked about how appreciative and respectful the soldiers were to them. ,She married Donald Eugene Evert in 1946 at the age of 20 with one condition, that she would never abandon her Savior, Jesus Christ. Don gave his life to Christ and loved his wife deeply and faithfully throughout their 62 years of marriage. Charlotte worked at Boeing in Seattle with the engineering group until her first son Marc Gene came along in 1952. Her daughter Pamela Gae arrived in 1955. They moved to Canada to start an aluminum window and awning business in 1959. Charlotte and family attended the same Lutheran church in Vancouver BC for nearly twenty years. Charlotte taught Sunday school and Vacation Bible School and attendance grew rapidly. She loved children and children loved her and responded to her. Charlottes daughter Pam taught alongside her Mom as she became old enough. As Pam became the Director of a Christian preschool, Pams love for teaching little children couldnt have made Charlotte more proud. The youngest son Martin Jay was born in 1961.Charlotte and Don built their business over twenty plus years into a suss story, and sold it in 1978 to return to the United States where they built up and eventually sold off a sussful HVAC and heat pump business. Charlotte ran the front office and did the bookkeeping without a hitch while Don managed operations and sales. Neither of them ever brought the stresses of work home to their children and one or both were always in attendance at the school, music, and sporting events of the kids. Charlotte made everyones breakfast just the way they liked it and prepared lovely hot homemade dinners every night. ,In a word, Charlottes love for her children and family was selfless. She and Don were patient and supportive of their children and encouraged them with education, music lessons and sports activities. The children never heard a cross word or argument between their parents over all the years. The loving home environment they maintained and their devotion to their children made for happy childhoods. Their home was the place to be for their kids friends. Charlotte maintained very high standards for morality and fairness, but was genuinely modest about her own extraordinary talents and didnt see herself as talented, although she clearly was. Her children idolized both their Mom and Dad and the example they set for family, work, ethics and truth were powe. Charlotte was a veracious reader and studied health and nutrition before it became fashionable, making her the neighborhood nutritionist among her many friends.Daughter Pam and Son in Law Tim Curry gave Charlotte and Don two beautiful Grandsons who adored their Grandparents. Charlotte learned she was at the center of a highly contested debate between little Kevin and one of his early teachers at his Christian School. The day the teacher posed that we all sin and by the grace of God are saved, Kevin gave an impassioned and extended argument that his Grandma was the excn because she never sins. Kevins brother Sean surely would have agreed. The boys got to experience Grandma Charlottes love and became accustomed to her ability to cook multi-course meals that were second to none. Everything she made was from scratch and better than you could ever find in a trendy store or a fancy restaurant. Her homemade baked goods led to two generations of little neighbor boys showing up in Charlottes kitchen unannounced, but knowing where the cookie jar was. Charlottes epic dinners on holidays and birthdays are the stuff of legend, although there seemed to be a great mystery as to how so many courses could come together, with all of it so perfectly cooked and beautifully presented at that exact time when we would bow our heads and give thanks with prayer.She was typically the favorite neighbor wherever she lived and was known to barter a neighbors hydrangeas for a pan of her famous cinnamon rolls. Charlotte was also an avid gardener and loved long vigorous daily walks in the fresh air well into her eighties. In recent years, she enjoyed living just a few doors down from her favorite niece, Jill Manasco (Minnies daughter) and was visited daily by Jill, Pam, Martin or some combination. Many weekend visits resulted in day or weekend shopping trips to the outlet malls in Tulalip, North Bend, Woodburn Oregon, and beyond.She will always be loved and live in the hearts of those she loved, inspired, supported and befriended. Her love of Christ and good work on earth will influence generations to come. We are grateful to God for her time with us and we celebrate her life and her journey to be in the arms of the Lord. As she is reunited with her loved ones in Heaven we rejoice in her reward. Because of her love and ministry for children, the family asks that con