Eva Lore Ashworth, 95, of May, Texas went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:10AM in Brownwood Regional Hospital. Funeral Services will be held at 11am on January 28, 2012 at May United Methodist Church, May Texas with Rev. Morgan Ashworth officiating. Burial will take place at Wolf Valley Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Friday evening at Heartland Funeral Home, Early, Texas.
Eva was born on August 2, 1916 in Edith, Texas to the late George and Ida Fields Powers. She attended school in Edith where she and her sisters rode horseback and traveled by buggy to school each day. Eva accepted Christ as her personal Lord and Savior at the age of 13 during a revival at Pecan Baptist Church in Edith, where she was baptized in a creek. She was raised in Coke, County, where she met her late husband, Fred Ashworth. They married on December 24, 1938 in Robert Lee, Texas and celebrated 38 years of marriage.
Eva worked several years as the Director of the May Senior Citizens where she met many lifelong friends. She also served as a Green Thumb worker for May ISD. Her hobbies included quilting, playing skip-bo, dominoes, crocheting afghans and making special Christmas bells for her loved ones.
Eva was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two sisters, Leah Blanton and Opal Montgomery and two sons, George Fredrick Ashworth and Douglas Gene Ashworth. She is survived by sons, Morgan and wife Dot of Lone Grove, Oklahoma and Larry and wife Jo of Wichita Falls, Texas. She is also survived by daughters-in-law, Martha Ashworth of McKinney, Texas and Sandra Ashworth of Camden, Arkansas. She was known as Granny by twelve grandchildren, Niesje Buaas, Mark Williams and wife Deirdre, Kerry Driskill and husband Bobby, Kirk Ashworth and wife Amy, Tammy Rucker, Morgan Ashworth Jr. and wife Mary, Callye Fenn and husband Tim, Scott Ashworth, Chris Ashworth and fiancé Haley, Corey Jacobs and husband Jeff, Wendy Eakin and husband Matt and Tera Tuggle and husband Jason. Granny Eva was the great- grandmother to twenty-eight great-grandchildren, Brittany Buaas, Derek and Abby Williams, Dustin Williams, Jeremy Driskill, Keith Driskill, Canyen Ashworth, Kyndal Ashworth, Zoe Ashworth, Nory Ashworth, Christopher and Rebecca Ashworth, Deacon Ashworth, Shiloh Ashworth, Gretchen Ashworth, Morgan Walker Ashworth, Dylan Myers, Austin Myers, Alec Myers, Chandler Fenn, Payton Ashworth, Dalton Ashworth, Macey Jacobs, Cooper Jacobs, Tristan Eakin, Sydney Eakin, Owen Tuggle and Ella Tuggle. One great-great-granddaughter, Kayla Williams. She was also loved by many nieces and nephews as well as their children.