Franklin Temple Evans, M.D., of Baltimore, MD passed away Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at his home. Dr. Evans had been a resident of Baltimore since 1982, where he worked for several companies that dealt with medical research and drug dependency. Previously, from 1963 until 1981, he had lived in Annapolis, MD where he had a private practice in psychiatry.
Dr. Evans was the son of Isham Harrison and Gladys Temple Evans of Shuqualak, MS and was born on August 6, 1928 in Meridian, MS. For high school he attended Marion Military Institute in Marion, AL. At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN he was President of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and graduated in 1950. He then attended Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA from which he graduated in 1954. He served his internship at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY.
Dr. Evans’ medical training continued at the Institutes of National Health in Bethesda, MD where he was a Research Fellow and then Chief of the outpatient clinic of the U.S. Public Health Service in Norfolk, VA. His residency in psychiatry began in 1960 at West Haven VA Hospital, followed by Grace-New Haven Hospital and the Yale Student Health Service. In 1963 he moved to Annapolis, MD where he began his private practice.
Dr. Evans’ love of science led him to invent several items for which he received patents. Two of his favorite inventions were a bed made of bags filled with polyurethane pellets which he called Bedders and a personal windmill. He also wrote and published several plays and many poems.
Dr. Evans is survived by his sister-in-law Carrie Scales Evans from Memphis, TN; his nephews and nieces: Isham Harrison and Betty Smith Evans of Oxford, MS; Jane Evans Atkins of Memphis, TN; and Patrick Benedict and Semmes Evans Zazzara of Arlington, VA; and six great nephews and nieces: Elisha Franklin Evans of Oxford, MS; Lawrence King Holcomb of Birmingham, AL; Robert Hudson Atkins and Carrie Scales Atkins of Memphis, TN; and William Augustus Kost and Patrick Benedict Zazzara III of Arlington, VA.
Burial will be a private ceremony for family.