Evelyn Westbrook Higginbotham,

Florence Evelyn Westbrook Higginbotham of Forsyth County passed away peacefully on September 24, 2014 in the Westbrook family farmhouse where she was born on March 15, 1931. Evelyn traveled the world as an Army wife and lived in Germany and France before returning to "The States" and then moving back home to the Gainesville area. Evelyn ran a paper route on Dawsonville Highway delivering The Times from 1975 to 1993 before helping start and managing Share-A Home in Gainesville for seniors.

She was a lifelong member of New Hope Methodist Church where she could be found singing in the choir every Sunday morning.

Evelyn is preceded in death by her parents Gildy Roy and Cynthia Forrest Westbrook, her sisters, Willie Westbrook, Winnie Bell Westbrook and Margaret Westbrook Bennett, her brother Wiley Roy Westbrook, her daughter Donna Kay Higginbotham.

She is survived by her sister Elizabeth Westbrook Smith, son Daryle James Higginbotham (Becky) and grandchildren Bryan Michael Higginbotham (Laura) and Kathleen Cynthia Higginbotham.

Evelyn would tell it like she saw it and always seemed to have simple words of truth to share.

"You can't live forever - the world would be an awful crowded place"

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, September 29, 2014 at New Hope United Methodist Church in Forsyth County. Rev. Larry Patton will officiate. Interment will be in New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Little & Davenport Funeral Home on Sunday, September 28, 2014 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and following the services at the church fellowship hall.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to New Hope United Methodist Church.

Those wishing to send online condolences may do so at littledavenport.com

Little & Davenport Funeral Home, 355 Dawsonville Highway, SW, Gainesville, Ga. 30501 is in charge of arrangements 770-534-5201.