Tribute to
Evelyn Faye Leatherberry Locke

June 25, 1925 - September 18, 2009

Evelyn Faye Leatherberry Locke died Friday morning, September 18, 2009 in Aultman Hospital, Canton, OH.  Memorial service will be at 1 pm on Monday, September 21 at the Church of Christ in Carrollton, OH. 

Evelyn was the source of endless information for the Augusta Cemetery web site.  We are indebted to her most especially for supplying information that breathed life into the names of our Cemetery Residents.

She grew up in the “heart of Augusta” and was especially well situated to hear and see everything.”  Her parents, Charlie Leatherberry and Rhoda Turnipseed Leatherberry, were proprietors of Leatherberry’s Store and Charlie’s Barbershop.  The business was attached to the Leatherberry home.  Hence, Evelyn and her sister, Elaine, moved comfortably among all the Augusta townsfolk who frequented the family business to buy food, to get a haircut, to hear the news and most especially for companionship.  Leatherberry’s Store and Barbershop was the gathering place for all of Augusta.  This was Evelyn’s Home.

I personally will miss her on several levels.  She was my third cousin on the Turnipseed side.  And more importantly, she was, on my Kinsey side, the best friend of my Aunt Emma Kinsey Rhodes.  It always seemed to me that there were never two people more diametrically opposite than these two women.  But, the friendship was deep.  It was as strong on the day Evelyn died as it had been at the beginning of their lives in Augusta.  That is perhaps the greatest tribute I can make to Evelyn.  She chose her friends wisely by the content of their hearts – and she was loyal to them until her death.

Bette I. Brown