JOSEPHINE ALBINA “JO” EVATT

Josephine Albina “Jo” Evatt, age 72, of Mt. Vernon, Missouri, passed away at 3:15 p.m. on Monday, October 17, 2022, at the Mt. Vernon Place Care Center. She was born March 7, 1950, in Medford, Wisconsin, the daughter of Chester Delmar and Vivianna (Votava) Bartelt.
Jo was a 1968 graduate of Harlem High School in Rockford, Illinois and Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri with her nursing degree. She retired from the Missouri Rehabilitation Center in Mt. Vernon, where she worked as a registered nurse. She was a member of the St. Susanne Catholic Church in Mt. Vernon where she served as the Director of the Food Pantry for 18 years.
On May 20, 1993, she married Marvin Eugene “Sonny” Evatt in Miami, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on August 20, 2022.
Jo is survived by two sons, Christopher Goodman and his significate other, Cindy Spalding of Marionville, Missouri and Matt Goodman and his wife, Mary, of Republic, Missouri; one daughter, Melissa Goodman of Mt. Vernon; two step-sons, Steve Evatt and Stanley Evatt, both of Mt. Vernon; eight grandchildren, Monica Hall, Erick Evatt, Jeremy Goodman, Amanda Goodman, Chester Henderson and his fiancée, Joy Sabalbarino, Joey, Gus and Amber Goodman; three great-grandchildren, Landyn Rodgers, Kyndly McNutt and Payton Rose Evatt; three sisters, Carol Chamberlin and her husband, Chuck, of Edmonds, Washington, Valerie Jensen of Medford, Wisconsin and Sharon Freding of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and one brother, Chester Bartelt, Jr. of Madison, Wisconsin.
Jo was preceded in death by her parents, Chester, and Vivianna; her husband, Sonny; an infant brother; one daughter, Loretta Goodman and stepdaughter, Stephanie Evatt.
A funeral service, under the direction of the Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home, in Mt. Vernon, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at the St. Susanne Catholic Church in Mt. Vernon. Burial will follow at the Summit Cemetery, northeast of Mt. Vernon. Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Monday, October 24, 2022, in the funeral home chapel.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made payable to the St. Susanne Food Pantry, in care of the funeral home.
Online condolences may be shared at www.FossettMosherFuneralHome.com.