Obituary for Evie Shaw

Funeral service for Evie Marie Shaw, age 76 of Sulphur Springs, Texas will be held at 1:00 P.M.
Thursday, January 22, 2026, at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Pastor Tim Sharp and Pastor
John Boyd officiating. Interment will follow at Mel Haven Cemetery with Darwin Shaw, Kenneth Shaw
Sr., Jeriah Johnson, De Montra Morris, Jonathan Shaw and Rashad Hall serving as pallbearers and
Danny McConnell, Christopher Brown and Frederick Shaw as honorary pallbearers. There will be no
formal visitation. Mrs. Shaw passed away on January 18, 2026, at Christus Mother Frances – Sulphur
Springs.
Evie Marie Shaw was born on January 15, 1950 in Greenville, Texas, to Mr. Armours Catilla Newsome
and Ella Marie Russeau. She attended high school in Commerce, Texas. Evie moved to Sulphur
Springs at an early age, where she met and married Mr. Meddie A. Shaw Jr. on June 27, 1966. To this
union, three children were born. She later joined and was baptized at Morning Chapel Missionary
Baptist Church in Sulphur Springs, Texas. She later joined Faith Tabernacle Full Gospel Pentecost
Church in Sulphur Springs, Texas, where she became a Sunday School Secretary and the church
secretary.
Mrs. Evie Marie Shaw is survived by one daughter, Linda Renay Shaw Johnson (Brian Keith Johnson);
two sons, Eddie Tyron Shaw and Elton Wayne Shaw both of Sulphur Springs, Texas; two grandsons
raised as sons, DiQuince Morris and DeMontra Morris; one brother, Richard Earl Newsome of
Campbell, Texas; fourteen grandchildren; two step grandchildren; one stepsister and two stepbrothers
and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
She is preceded in death by her loving husband, Mr. Meddie A. Shaw Jr.; parents, Armours Catilla
Newsome and Ella Marie Russeau and two sisters, Linda Sue Wade and Vera Newsome.
Arrangements are under the direction of Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.
The online register can be signed at www.murrayorwosky.com