Lucky Bag Yearbook

From the 1959 Lucky Bag:

STUART D. EVANS

Fifth Company

Stu, as he was known by his classmates, came to the Academy directly from Woodrow Wilson High. Though living in Washington, Stu is a southerner at heart, being born in New Orleans and having lived there most of his life. Since coming to USNA, Stu participated in a variety of activities ranging from the Antiphonal Choir to battalion boxing. He agrees with that old saying “Navy Line is mighty fine.” After graduation, he plans to spend a year or two in the Fleet after which he plans to go to New London for submarine school.

Loss

Stuart was lost on June 17, 1963 when the plane he was piloting crashed into the Mediterranean Sea while on a training flight.

Other Information

From Find A Grave:

Lt. Stuart Douglas Evans, 25, a Navy pilot, was killed June 27 while on a training flight over the Mediterranean from the carrier USS Saratoga.

A hundred miles from his ship, he was executing a simulated attack run at 200 feet when his A1-H Skyraider attack plane crashed into the sea, the Navy said. His body was not recovered.

Lt. Evens’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Linson Rowland Evans, Jr., live at 3712 Ingomar street N.W. His wife and two young daughters are staying with her parents at 5902 Hitt avenue, McLean, VA.

Lt. Evans was assigned to Attack Squadron 35, based in Jacksonville, FL. The squadron is now deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean for a six-month air defense exercise.

Born in New Orleans, Lt. Evans attended Fortier High School there. In 1935 his family moved to Washington, and he was graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1955.

Appointed to the Naval Academy by Senator Russell Long, Democrat of Louisiana, he was graduated June 3 1959, marrying the former Miss Georgianna Nagley of Mclean the next day.

Lt. Evans first served as assistant navigator aboard the destroyer USS Manley in the Atlantic Fleet. After flight training in Florida and Texas. he was assigned to Squadron 35 in February, 1962.

In addition to his wife and parents, he leaves a brother, Lt. Rowland Grayson Evans, also a Navy pilot and now at M.I.T. graduate school and a brother and sister, Donald and Marilyn, at his parents’ address.

Memorial serves were held aboard the Saratoga on June 28.

From researcher Kathy Franz:

Stuart graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1955: Math and science come easy to “the guy from New Orleans” . . . women drivers peeve him no end . . . “Fogey” he says . . . is ambitious to make a million . . . on to Annapolis.

Stuart scored 77 out of 80 points during his two-year training at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station in Texas.

Photographs

Stuart and his brother Rowland

From The Times Picayune on June 4, 1951

From his 1955 high school yearbook