Rachel Held Evans, June 08, 1981 — May 04, 2019

Rachel Held Evans (Dayton, Tennessee, TN) June 08, 1981 May 04, 2019 Death notice, Obituaries, Necrology
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Birth date: June 08, 1981

Death date: May 04, 2019

Death place: Dayton, Tennessee(TN), USA

Funeral Home: Vanderwall Funeral Home

Rachel Held Evans, 37, died Saturday, May 4, 2019 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 8, 1981 and moved to Dayton in 1994. She graduated from Rhea County High School in 1999 and earned her B.A. in English Literature at Bryan College in 2003.

She lived in Chattanooga from the fall of 2003 to the summer of 2004, and has been a resident of Dayton ever since. Rachel loved words and stories, and she built a successful career as a writer and speaker. She wrote four books: “Faith Unraveled”; “A Year of Biblical Womanhood,” which made the New York Times best-seller list; “Searching for Sunday”; and “Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water and Loving the Bible Again”.

But even more than writing or the Alabama Crimson Tide or dark chocolate, Rachel loved Jesus, Scripture, and her family. She is survived by her husband of 15 years, Dan Evans; her three-year-old son, Henry, and 11-month-old daughter, Harper; her parents, Peter and Robin Held of Dayton; and her sister, Amanda (Tim) Opelt of Boone, North Carolina. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Vanderwall Funeral Home in Dayton, TN.

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death notice Rachel Held Evans June 08, 1981 — May 04, 2019

obituary notice Rachel Held Evans June 08, 1981 — May 04, 2019

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