Evelyn or Evaline Earl McCoy
Denison Teacher

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Linda Russell Warren wrote : Does anyone remember Miss McCoy at Central and later McDaniel?  I always remembered her whacking students on the knuckles with a wooden ruler with a meetal strip on it.  I was always afraid of her.  I heard that in the latter years someone pushed her down the stairs and broke her arm.  Shortly afterwards she retired.

Jim Sears wrote : Evelyn or Evaline Earl McDoy (1905 - 1992) lived at 1301 W. Sears in the 1950s and '60s.  Never married, she lived with her widowed mother Lillit (1879 - 1961). John McCoy, Evelyn's father, was a farmer on Ambrose Road in the early 1900s.  Before that, he was one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War.  Evelyn (or Evaline) was one of four children.  Her middle name, which I doubt she revealed to many, was Earl.  My family lived across the street from her from 1959-64.  She was a quiet neighbor.  My recollection si that she didn't come out of her house much, but I was young and not paying close attention.

Sue Lewis Flores wrote : I had her in grade school; she was a trip.  I remember her always looking old lady chic, with her hair in a bun, and always talking about her trips to Mexico, primarily Mexico City.  She always talked about coupons, pronounced it differently than I had ever heard it.

Leah Stanphill Strong wrote : Mrs. McCoy: I didn't have her at Central, but like everyone else, was intimidated by her.  Then in Junior High, she was one of my teachers, and I thought she was really good!