Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series of stories about former Gem State governors from eastern Idaho. Read more here. IDAHO FALLS – John Victor Evans was Idaho’s second Democratic governor in 30 years when he took office in 1977. His predecessor, Cecil Andrus, had earned the majority vote over the Republican incumbent, […]
A woman considered to be Indiana’s oldest resident has died at age 112. Anna Garrett of Indianapolis died on May 27, two months short of her 113th birthday, according to Lavenia & Summers Funeral Home. A funeral is planned for Saturday. Sign up for our Newsletters God “called her home while she slept in her bed, in her home of over 50 years, whispering, ‘your work is done,’” her obituary said. Garrett was born in 1908 in Sparta, Georgia, and her.