Evelyn Marie (Engelhardt) Lohr passed away peacefully on December 12, 2024. Friendly,
open-minded, and adventurous, she was such a full giver of unconditional love to her family and
friends: her absence is greatly felt in their lives and hearts.
Evelyn was born on November 15, 1938 in Santa Ana, CA to Doris and Donald Engelhardt. The
oldest of four, she grew up in the San Fernando Valley on Sherman Place (in Roscoe/Sun
Valley). She was very proud to have been the youngest person Lockheed ever hired (at the
time). She was 17 when she graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1956. The top
students in her vocational business program were guaranteed positions upon graduation and
she was thrilled to land a secretary job at Lockheed. Professional workplace dress was quite
fancy in those days, and in getting her hair done regularly for a few years she realized the
hairdressers were making more money than she, so she became a cosmetologist and worked at
a salon in North Hollywood.
Shortly after high school she met her future husband, Curtis Lohr (“the cute ‘older’ guy with the
cool ‘34 Ford hot rod who lived around the corner on Clyborn Avenue”), and married him in
1967. Soon they had their first daughter, Jonni. Seeking a cleaner life for her, they set out on the
adventure of a lifetime, buying an antiques business in Cayucos, CA called the Cayucos Trading
Post. They knew nothing about antiques, borrowed heavily, gambled on themselves and were
successful. They made 1-2 buying trips a year out to the midwest in a big, red truck to find barns
and homesteads of forgotten and unwanted turn-of-the-century treasures. During this exciting
time, Patti was born.
After 7 years of cold, foggy beachfront and tourists, they sought a warmer climate with a house
with enough property for an antiques store, horses for their horse-crazy daughter, and a house
for Curt’s mother, Irene. They found it in Sonora, CA where they opened Lohr’s Lane Antiques,
living out their dream life and doing all they could for their girls to live theirs, too. The good life
they found there even enticed a niece and Evelyn’s mother, Doris, to relocate there, as well.
Evelyn had many interests and skills. In addition to over 35 years running their antiques and
eBay stores, she returned to hairdressing, learned medical transcription at Columbia College
and took on transcription jobs, worked in the office, library and as a campus aide at Sonora High
School, was the Tuolumne County 4-H Coordinator, and was Executive Secretary at Fibreboard.
When not working or driving her children all over for horse riding lessons, gymnastics, 4-H
meetings, and horse shows & rodeos, she volunteered as the Columbia Prospectors 4-H
Advisor/Leader, was a sewing club leader for 4-H, and held many bowling league officer
positions. She had many interests throughout her life: roller skating (Valley Rollers skate club as
a teen and young adult), bowling (1956-2019), antiquing, golfing, sewing & needlework,
supporting her daughters’ interests and passions, hair dressing, traveling/road trips, puzzles,
flowers, and a great lover of people.
Evelyn had a sharp mind to the end, despite the multitude of physical changes in her aging
body. She moved in with her daughters in Humboldt county in the summer of 2020 after some
serious heart problems and, after recovering good health a year later, moved into an assisted

living facility in Fortuna where she made many good friends, took advantage of all the daily
activities offered and three-meals-a-day in the dining room, and saw her daughters nearly daily
and her sister often. The final four years of her life were mentally, physically, and emotionally
rich and loving and her girls are so grateful to have had her near to share them.
Evelyn is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Virginia and Thomas Scholl and brothers and
sisters-in-law, Lawrence and Mundana Engelhardt and John and Janet Engelhardt; her
daughters and sons-in-law, Jonni and Mike Mayberry and Patti Lohr and Ken Stevenson;
grandchildren Alexa Hayley Jenkins, Wyatt Stevenson, and MacKenzie, Garrett, and Gavin
Mayberry; great-grandson Wylden Mayberry; and thirteen nieces and nephews. Curt preceded
her in death in 2012.
No services are planned. Make a toast or a prayer to her, share a memory or story with a friend,
work a puzzle with a family member, or bowl a 200 in her memory; those things would make her
happy.