Ms. Eva Yvonne Rhoades

September 27, 1935 - August 22, 2017

Memorial graveside services for Eva Yvonne (Andrus) Rhoades, 81, of Sugar Land, formerly of Henderson, will be at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 at Rusk County Memorial Gardens with Sam Rhoades officiating. The family will receive friends a half hour before the service at the cemetery. She passed away Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at Houston Methodist Hospital in Sugar Land. She was born Sept. 27, 1935 in Henderson to the late Cecil M. (Sam) and Olga Mae Andrus. She was a proud member of the Henderson High School Class of 1954 and she earned her Education Degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. Later she went on to attain a Masters of Education from the University of Texas at Tyler. Teaching was her passion, in and out of the classroom, and the only thing she loved more than teaching, were her students. She taught in the Austin and Houston school districts and later for the West Rusk school district as a Special Education teacher until her retirement in 1994. She was also involved with the Rusk County Poetry Society, and was a past president of the Athletic Booster Club. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her grandparents, Archie and Eva Maddox. Survivors include: son, Samuel Rhoades and wife Lora of Sugar Land; grandsons, Haden and Grayson Rhoades of Bellaire; granddaughters, Nicole Rodesney of Long Beach, CA, and Amber Vasquez of Sugar Land; niece, Janice Eidel of Sun Valley, ID; and special lifelong friends, Dr. Michael Dennis, Orenthal Johnson, and Lonnie and Linda Hammett. The family would like to express a special debt of gratitude is to her extended family at the Hamptons at Meadows Place in Stafford, TX., where she resided for the last 9 years. The love and care she received from them was an unbelievable blessing. Condolences may be made online at www.crawfordacrim.com.