LAWRENCE — Lydia Evans was born on October 10, 1920 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and died at age 97, surrounded by love, June 6, 2018 at The Lawrence Presbyterian Manor, which she called home following the death of her beloved husband, Robert “Bob” Evans, three years ago. She now rejoins Bob and is survived by her children and their spouses Patricia Anne Bird (Lynn), Robert Rockey Evans Jr. (Cathy), James Warren Evans 2nd (Awe), David Spencer Evans (Jan), and David Lee Barclay (Cecily); and 10 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, her sister and brother-in-law Betty and Bill Silman, nieces and nephews and many good friends.Lydia was the middle of five sisters. Both of her parents, Vere and Margaret (Wallace) Spencer had died by the time she was 16 so she and her two younger sisters, Ginny and Betty moved to Norman, Oklahoma to live with her older sister, Mary who was a student at OU. There, as a 16 year-old senior at University High School she met Bob and learned that life could be fun.