Evelyn Price

Both PLTS and the larger University were remembered in the estate plans of Southern Californian Evelyn Price, who passed away recently.

Evelyn Gustafson Price was born in Los Angeles in 1914, and attended Los Angeles public schools.  After high school, she studied for two years at Los Angeles Community College.  All this time, she was a member of Angelica Lutheran Church there.

She worked ten years as an accountant.  They she became a Navy WAVE and went to Midshipman's School in Northampton, Massachusetts, becoming an ensign upon completion.  She was assigned to the Naval Bureau of Accounts at Terminal Island, California.

In 1946, Evelyn left the Navy and studied at Pepperdine College on the GI Bill. She also received a MA at USC.  After teaching at Pepperdine for a year, she became a high school business teacher at Banning High in Wilmington, California.  In 1957, she became a high school vice-principal.  She retired from LA schools in 1973 and then taught at Cal State LA for seven years.

In 1957, Evelyn was married to Homer Price, a math teacher and counselor.  They traveled extensively together in the US and Europe.  Homer died in 1997.  Evelyn moved to Quaker Gardens in Stanton, California in 2004.  There she volunteered in prison education, and initiated a communion worship service twice a month.

Evelyn and Homer were committed to many ministries of the church, including the formation of church leaders at PLTS, the ELCA's seminary of the West.  We are grateful for the generous provisions that the Prices made in their will.