Seymour Tribune - November 12, 2009 
Evelyn (Johnson) Melloncamp
1921 - 2009 
Evelyn J. Melloncamp, 88, Crothersville, passed away at 11:52 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, at Covered Bridge Health Campus, Seymour.
Mrs. Melloncamp was a member of Tampico Baptist Church, where she started teaching Sunday school at age 8 and taught for 60 years. She was active in American Baptist Women's Ministries and enjoyed youth ministry and teaching vacation Bible school. She was a homemaker. She was a 1939 graduate of Tampico High School and then enrolled in Bethesda Hospital School of Nursing, was a member of Farm Bureau and was leader for eight years of the Tampico Lucky Seven 4-H Club. She enjoyed crocheting, gardening, traveling, playing Scrabble and working with various word puzzles and especially spending time reading the Bible. She endeavored to live her life according to her favorite Bible verse, Micah 6:8, "What does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" Her favorite group to teach was her Sunday school children because of their eagerness to learn and their unpredictable questions and comments. They brought much joy to her life. Although Evelyn was born in Rockford, Ill., at the age of 7 she chose to leave her family and move to Indiana to live with her grandparents, Jason and Eve Briner Johnson. After her marriage, they settled in the Tampico community and began farming. She enjoyed her three grandchildren and being close to all of her family.
Born Aug. 15, 1921, in Rockford, Ill., she was the daughter of Hugh A. Sr. and Hazel Rudena Shields Johnson, both of whom preceded her in death. On Dec. 12, 1942, in Halls, Tenn., she married Harold William Melloncamp, who preceded her in death Sept. 4, 1987.
Survivors include two sons, Larry Melloncamp, Tampico, and Duane Melloncamp, Crothersville; one daughter-in-law, Dorothy Melloncamp, Seymour; one sister, Vivian Brown, San Antonio, Texas; and three grandchildren, Terry Melloncamp and Eric Melloncamp, both of Tampico, and Amy (Julio) Torres, Seymour.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Hugh A. Johnson Jr. and David Phillip Johnson, and three sisters, Margaret Irene Demus, Dorothy Blanche McCauley and Marion Amanda Hoyt.
The Rev. Harold Morrow and the Rev. David Schell will conduct funeral services at 10 a.m. Saturday at Tampico Baptist Church. Burial will take place at Crothersville Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Spurgeon Funeral Home Inc., Brownstown, and from 9 a.m. until time of service Saturday at the church.