Charlotte Lucille Wheat Evans Ayers Jan. 26, 1919 - Oct. 30, 2015 LUBBOCK-Charlotte Wheat Evans Ayers peacefully passed to be with her Lord, surrounded by the love of her family, and witnessed by a host of loved ones awaiting her in Heaven, on Friday morning Oct. 30, 2015. She was 96. Charlotte was the third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wheat of Seymour, Texas, on Jan. 26, 1919. She was remarkable even as a little girl with her great love of singing, playing piano, and simply loving life. She grew up during the Dust Bowl in the Great Depression, which contributed to her deep appreciation of hard work, close family ties, church, and wonderful music. She completed her degree in music education at Texas Women's University in 1940. On March 4, 1943, she married the love of her life, Lt Commander Francis Lanham Evans. They had seven children over the next fourteen years, when his life was tragically cut short by a sudden illness in 1957. Charlotte and her children then moved back from Washington D.C. and home to Lubbock, Texas, where the family had been charter members of the St John's United Methodist Church. Charlotte taught 6th grade for the Lubbock Independent School District from 1957 to 1974, when she completed her Master's Degree in Guidance and Counseling at Texas Tech University. From 1974 until her retirement in 1986, she worked as guidance counselor and diagnostician for the Lubbock public schools. Many colleagues and grown students still tell wonderful stories about Charlotte coming down the hall with her ukulele, to sing to the classrooms; to listen to children talk about what they worried about; and to help the classroom teachers in endless ways. Even after retiring from the public schools, her life was full of music and children as she helped raise her grandchildren and care for her great grandchildren as well. She loved to travel, and saw the world. She once bicycled over 1100 miles throughout central Europe at age 59 with several friends from her church. She remarried in 1976 to Cecil Ayers, a professor of agronomy at Texas Tech, who shared her love of travel, music and dance, before he passed away two years later. She leaves a great legacy in the thousands of children she taught, counseled, and helped throughout her life. She also leaves a great legacy with her own children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband; her daughter, Lana Kay Evans Maney; her infant sons, Donald and Claude; her two sisters, Sarah and Josephine, and brother John. She is survived by: her daughter, Susan Evans Forrest Sparkman, husband William Sparkman of Reno, Nev., and Susan's children; Catherine Forrest Durham and her husband Stacy, and daughter Jaycie Catherine Colwell all of Lubbock, Texas; David Lamar Forrest and wife Wendy Forrest and their two daughters, Emily Lauren and Olivia Grace, of Lubbock, Texas; and Laurie Christine Forrest Moy and husband Christopher Moy and their three children, Mason Lamar, Mackenzie Richard, and Morgan Olivia Christine of Fairfax, Va. Charlotte is survived also by her son, Walter William Evans, his two sons, Joshua Christian and Nikolas James, his daughter Jaelie Ann Evans, all of Phoenix, Ariz.; and his daughter, Amanda Jane Evans Warner and her husband Cameron and their two daughters, Charlotte August and Tessa Lavender of Henderson, Nev. Charlotte is also survived by her daughter, Pamela Jean Evans Cho and her husband Dr. Frank Cho, and their two sons, Allen Francis and Kevin Christopher, all of Austin, Texas. Charlotte is also survived by her daughter, Dr. Patricia Evans and her husband Johnny L. Copley, Sr, of Dallas, Texas. A celebration of Charlotte's remarkable life will be held on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Saint John's United Methodist Church, 15th and University A Avenue Lubbock, Texas, (806) 762-0123. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations should be made to either to Saint John's United Methodist Church of Lubbock