Rebecca Thacher (Clarke) Evans, of Southbury CT, died on January 10, 2012. Becky, as she was known all her life, was born in Rochester, NY, on April 25 1923. She was the daughter of Hans Thacher Clarke, biochemist and Frieda Planck Clarke. She attended Barnard School for girls in Manhattan and Dwight High School in Englewood, N.J. She received her B.A. from Lawrence University in Wisconsin. After graduation, she traveled to Seattle and worked at Boeing after which she adventured back east by hitchhiking with a co-worker. In the early 1940's she enlisted in the Navy as a Wave. After her Navy service, Becky joined the CIA. She married Joseph Culver Evans in 1964 and became close to his twin daughters. Joe and Becky divorced in 1972. She worked in Beirut, Rome, and in the nation's capital for the rest of her career. Upon retirement she moved to New York City to take care of her aunt and namesake, Rebecca Thacher Clarke, the renowned composer. Becky worked at Lincoln Center until she moved to Southbury, Connecticut where she spent the last two decades of her life. She was active and involved in her community, was a member of the Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society, and spent many holidays bicycling on this continent and in Europe.
She is predeceased by her two brothers, Eric Thacher Clarke and John Thacher Clarke and one nephew, Joseph Thacher Clarke. She is survived by her sister Heidi (Clarke) Schultz of West Tisbury, MA, her nieces and nephews: Rebecca Thacher Clarke of Billerica, MA, Hans Thacher Clarke of Berlin, MA, Heidi (Clarke) Palmer of Tamworth NH, Benjamin Wing Clarke of Acushnet MA, Abigail (Clarke) Karner of Ludlow VT, Elizabeth (Clarke) Nill, of Barnstable, MA, Eric Thacher Clarke of Bryan, TX, Sarah Richards of Coupeville, WA, and Ruth Richards of Cabot, VT, her two step-daughters, Amy (Evans) Hunt of Annapolis, MD and Margo Evans of Annapolis, MD, plus all their partners, numerous grand nieces and nephews and a step-grandchild.

Memorials: Her Memorial Web Page is at: http://RebeccaTEvans.wordpress.com/ In lieu of flowers, please send contributions in Becky's memory to Mattatuck UU Society, P.O. Box 876, Woodbury, CT 06798-0876.

Cemetery: Cemetery Not Applicable

Location: Munson-Lovetere Southbury

Funeral: Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society

Services: A Memorial Service will be held on Feb. 4, 2012, 2 pm at the Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society, 122 South Pomperaug Ave., Woodbury, CT.