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Wilbur Leroy Roy
Evans of Elkton, Oregon passed away February 14, 2007 after
battling cancer at VA Transitional Care Unit, Roseburg, OR. He was
81.
He was born January 16, 1926 in Blue Hill, Nebraska to Walter A.
Evans, 3rd US Marshall, and Martha Dora Thompson.
Roy, a WWII Navy
Veteran one of sixty survivors - USS Bismark Sea (CVE 95) sunk
February 21, 1945. Struck by two kamikazes off of Iwo Jima. He
lived in California forty-eight years. He and his wife Elaine
owned and operated the Black Diamond Ranch, raised registered
black Angus and thoroughbred horses since 1969. Member of the
American Angus Association.
Interment, Eagle Point
National Cemetery, Eagle Point, Oregon.
All of us at Angus, The
Magazine join the entire Angus fraternity in extending our deepest
sympathy to the Evans family.
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