Evelyn Stanley Ginger, 97, of Henderson, Kentucky, passed away Friday, March 16, 2018, at her home.

She was born in Christian County, Kentucky, to John and Ida Hardin Johnson on February 4, 1921.  Evelyn's rural upbringing on Keeling Ridge shaped her discipline and determination.  She graduated Bethel Junior College in 1942 and began her first year of teaching at a small, two-room schoolhouse in Earlington, Kentucky.  For the next 40 years, Evelyn went on to teach school in Hopkins, Christian, and Henderson County, Kentucky.

She was longtime member of First United Methodist Church and Henderson Garden Club.  Evelyn served on the board of Henderson County Farm Bureau.  She was also a member of Reed Homemakers Club, Friends of Audubon, Friends of the Library, and was a 4-H Club leader.  Evelyn volunteered with Methodist Hospital Auxiliary and American Red Cross.  Her love of traveling led her to join the Friendship Force where she traveled all over the world and hosted families from abroad.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands, George W. Stanley, Jr., and Houston E. Ginger; and her siblings, Annie Kate Johnson Wood, Dudley Johnson, and Helen Osteen Grove.

Survivors include two daughters, Shelby Stanley Williams and her husband, Dale, and Kass Stanley McKee and her husband, Herb, both of Henderson, Kentucky; one stepdaughter, Aurora Ginger of Henderson, Kentucky; four grandchildren, Emily Williams Gravier and her husband, Jamie, of Texarkana, Arkansas, Katherine Stanley McKee of Lexington, Kentucky, Herbie McKee, Jr.,  and his wife, Erin, of Henderson, Kentucky, and Brandon Dale Williams and his wife, Allyson, of Smith Mills, Kentucky; five great-grandchildren, Emma Gravier, Ava and Walker Howell, and Ray and Elayne Williams; nieces and nephews.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Rudy-Rowland Funeral Home.  The Reverend Cindy Green and the Reverend David E. Latham will officiate.  Burial will be in Fernwood Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time Monday at the funeral home.

Contributions may be made to First United Methodist Church, St. Anthony's Hospice, and Friends of Audubon.

Pallbearers will be Herbie McKee, Brandon Williams, Jamie Gravier, George Jones, Richard "Dick" Royer, Wayne West, and Tom Dempewolf.