SC: Junior firefighter laid to rest Sunday with full honors

Monday, July 13, 2009

SC: Junior firefighter laid to rest Sunday with full honors

Junior firefighter laid to rest Sunday with full honors

Abbeville-area firefighters unload the casket of John Michael Evans on Sunday at Ebenezer United Methodist Church. Evans, who was a rising Wright Middle School seventh-grader and a junior volunteer firefighter, was killed last week in an accidental shooting. (Staff photo by T.M. James)

“911, be advised that junior firefighter 811, John Michael Evans, has completed his last assignment and requests permission to go home.”

“Ten-four, John Michael Evans, permission granted. Go on home.”

With that radio exchange, Abbeville’s 11-year-old John Michael Evans was laid to rest on a sweltering Sunday afternoon in a small cemetery at Ebenezer United Methodist Church, as hundreds of family members, friends and mourners looked on.

Evans died last week of an accidental gunshot wound. The youngster was in a deer stand practicing target shooting with a friend and, while climbing down from the stand, dropped his gun. The gun inadvertently fired and a single bullet struck Evans in the head.
The 11-year-old, affectionately known as “Whistle” to his family, was a rising seventh-grader at Wright Middle School. He was the son of Abbeville’s Mike and Heather Evans.

John Michael Evans, a junior firefighter with Long Cane Volunteer Fire Department, was given a full fireman’s funeral. Thirteen fire trucks from numerous departments were a part of the ceremony and the boy’s body was taken from Harris Funeral Home in Abbeville to the Ebenezer cemetery on Long Cane Engine No. 8.

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Monday, July 13, 2009