Dr. Arthur F. Evans III

January 9, 1943 - March 31, 2022

A memorial service for Arthur Frederick Evans III M.D., age 79 of Hideaway, Texas, is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2022, at the Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home Chapel in Lindale, Texas with Father Jim Cook officiating. Family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. prior to the service. Dr. Evans passed away on Thursday, March 31, 2022, in Tyler, Texas. He was born January 9, 1943, in Dallas, Texas to the late Arthur Frederick and Edith Dale (Wheat) Evans. Dr. Evans is a native Texan and graduate of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine. After a straight surgery internship at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, he served as a U.S. Navy flight surgeon through 1972. He completed residency training in Neurological Surgery at Baylor in 1976 and has been in the private practice of neurosurgery for the past 33 years, first in Houston and then in Waco. He is a past president of the Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Houston Neurological Society. He is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and maintains membership in the American Association of Neurological surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Evans is a Texas Medical Liability Trust policyholder since the inception of TMLT in 1979. He has been a long-time consultant for TMLT and has been a member of the Claims Review Committee since 1999. He served on the Governing Board of TMLT from 2007 to 2015 and was the Board Chairman in 2014 and 2015. Dr. Evans also served on the Lone Star Alliance, Inc. Board of Directors from 2016 to 2020. In his spare time, he enjoyed playing tennis, fly fishing in Colorado, and playing Bridge. Arthur was preceded in death by his daughter, Jennifer Evans Matwijiw. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Bee Evans of Hideaway; children, Lisa Evans of Lindale and Arthur Evans IV of Houston; brothers, Mike Evans and wife, Ann of Houston and Tim Evans and wife, Sharon of Houston; 5 grandchildren and numerous other loving family members and friends.