#Evelyn June 13
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On Monday June 8, 2020 EVELYN Price passed away in her home in Lumberton NC after a three year battle with ovarian cancer. She has been dubbed the “Queen of Lumberton” by my good friend John Rancke.
During her battle I would visit with her occasionally but especially at Christmas when my sister Mary who has Downs Syndrome and lives in New Jersey would come visit. She had many visitors from her Lumberton First Presbyterian Church Family including Carole Goforth, Eva Monroe, Heather Miller, and Linda Metzger.
Evelyn met my sister five or six years ago at First Presbyterian and invited us to come visit her when she was in town. Even when EVELYN wasn’t feeling 100% she made my sister feel like royalty. That is what a Queen does.
If you are not from Lumberton you need to know that EVELYN Price was a retired businesswomen who ran a successful upscale women’s clothing store in Lumberton, NC for many years called the Fashion Bar. I think it is safe to say that woman didn’t go to a prom, party, gala, or cotillion without shopping at the Fashion Barn. It was located on 604 North Elm Street until Ms. Evelyn decided to retire in 1994. She opened the business in 1954. She was a fashionista before it became a word and remained that way until she left us.
Her life was more than business it included a wonderful reputation in the community. She was a servant leader and the Lumberton Area Chamber of Commerce and Robeson Community College were just two non-profits she helped.
EVELYN’S taste for fashion doesn’t stop with clothes. Her home on the corner of Rowland and West 33rd Street in Lumberton had a wonderful yard complete with a fabulous Japanese garden.
On my early morning runs thru her Tanglewood neighborhood in the spring and summer I would marvel how impressive it was.
EVELYN was also a lifesaver to a lot of UNC Pembroke coaches. She owned a small house adjacent to hers on West 33rd Street and she rented it out. To each of her tenants she became a second mom. That included UNC Pembroke coaches and their families. She was a generous and gracious landlord over the past 12 years to the families of the UNCP Men’s Basketball and Football Coach.
I am pretty certain EVELYN has a gracious and caring landlord up in heaven. He knows the Queen of Lumberton has arrived and she is impeccably dressed.
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