Elaine Evans

As the story goes, she was born premature at 7 months and she was a very, very small baby, but she survived. Elaine’s father took a special interest in her and started to call her Ms. Pooks, which eventually turned into “Miss Pooksey.”

Elaine had a happy childhood along with her 5 brothers and 4 sisters. She attended and graduated from Bunkers Hill Unity School in Jamaica. After graduation she began to work at the Bunkers Hill Post Office until she was invited by her cousin to Spalding, Manchester to work at Dr. Robb’s office as a receptionist. Elaine enjoyed her work so much at Dr. Robb’s office, she became very interested in the medical field and years later decided to pursue that interest by attending and graduating from nursing school in New York.

While Elaine was in Jamaica, her older sister, Ione, had migrated to New York with her husband, Alfred. They wrote to Elaine and invited her to visit America and she accepted. The year was 1954 when she arrived, however, it was so overwhelming to her that she cried and cried and cried. After one year in America, she returned to Jamaica, the land that she loved so much and resumed her life there.

Years later Elaine returned to America, and met Wesley Evans in 1958 and they were married. She gave birth to a boy named Robert Renwick who died a few days after his birth, however, soon after she was blessed with a girl named Jacqueline Emery. Elaine, Wesley, and Jackie ended up living in Bronx, New York where Elaine worked as a private duty nurse and in true Jamaican style, held a second position at Fort Tryon Nursing Home for 20 years. In 2001 Elaine retired and decided to move to Lauderhill, Florida, where she resided for 11 years until her passing.

In keeping with her caring profession, Elaine always showed a warm, nurturing, and caring spirit toward family and friends. On many occasions, she opened up her heart and her home to those in need never expecting anything in return. In her presence, she exuded a calming aura. When people visited her home, she always wanted to feed them and was genuinely interested in how each person was doing.

One word to capture Elaine’s essence – would be GIVER!

Driving her giving nature was a profound faith in God, which was demonstrated by her many acts of kindness. Her bountiful spirit assures us that she is finally at rest in a special place in heaven watching over her loved ones, probably in the background where she preferred to be as opposed to being in the limelight.

Elaine leaves to cherish her memory, her daughter, Jacqueline Evans, her two grandsons, Jermaine and Jordan, brothers and sisters, Ouida, Sybil, Shirley, Phillip, Bobby, and Errol as well as numerous loving nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.