Evelyn E. Winkler, 85, died Jan. 31, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson.

She was born May 3, 1925, the daughter of John LeRoy and Sylvia Lucinda Cripe Strohm.

A graduate of Little River High School in 1941, she was a homemaker. Evelyn was a member of Eastwood Church of Christ and the EHU.

On Sept. 11, 1945, she married Bill Allen Winkler in Hutchinson. He died July 7, 2000.

Survivors include: two sons, Steve Winkler and wife Kathy, Hutchinson, Brad Winkler and wife June, Phoenix, Arizona; a brother, LeRoy Strohm, Sebring, Florida; two sisters, Verna Mae Smith, Little River, and Zeta Wymore, Sherburn, Minnesota; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, sister, Iva Myers, and a grandson, Jon Winkler.

Service will be at 1 p.m., Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in Fairlawn Burial Park Mausoleum with Jimie-Wray Mead presiding. Friends may call 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, with family to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Elliott Mortuary Chapel.

Memorials may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society or the Maude Carpenter Children's Home, in care of the mortuary.

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