Evalina K. Settle, 84

Published 12:07 pm Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Evalina K. Settle, 84, of Wilmore, passed into peace with her Lord on Feb. 22, 2025. She was the widow of John C. Settle, Jr., her husband for 65 years.
Evalina was born in Louisville, to Elizabeth (Cromwell) and Harold P. Kremer. She married and moved to Norfolk, VA, where they resided until John’s Navy service ended and they moved to New Albany, IN. During this time, Evalina developed a handwriting script based on Shaker journals and became the calligrapher for the newly restored Shaker Village in Harrodsburg. They later moved to Wilmore where she joined Wilmore Presbyterian Church and would spend the rest of her life with this community of extended family, neighbors, and friends that she adored. She would be active in school PTOs, church missions, and church leadership. She would work as a freelance artist and had her own business, Settle Script. She would clerk at Farmer’s Bank, work for Blooded Horse Sales, Co., and later at Shakertown. She illustrated and helped to compile two Shaker cookbooks and created her own cookbook. Later, she wrote a biography of her mother’s life, intermingling recipes with history and collected memories.
Evalina was creative in every aspect of her life. She would straighten it, design it, fix it, decorate it (oh, how she loved to wallpaper it!). She had a vibrant spirit, unquenchable curiosity, and abundant joy. She was a wonderful cook, a gracious hostess, and a loyal friend. She loved to laugh and she shared that laughter easily. Her family was her joy. She shared a lifetime of love with “Junnie” and cherished her children. She took her title of “MoMo” seriously and went to extreme lengths to care for her grandchildren and those she deemed “acquired” grands.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Anna “Pem” Kremer, her husband, and twin great-granddaughters Emily and Olivia Collins.
She is survived by daughters, Elizabeth Collins and Anna Schick, along with her husband Byron Schick (Evalina’s “bonus son”), and son, John H. Settle (Jenny France Spencer). Also left to carry her legacy of love are grandchildren, James Collins, Sterling Schick, Elizabeth (Greg) Ramey, Bailie Gardner, Robert Collins, Zach (Hana) Settle, Catey Settle and Sydney (Aaron) Whitaker, along with great-grandchildren: Addison, Luke, Riley, Evan and Jasper.
The family will greet friends and share Evalina’s art at Wilmore Presbyterian Church on Sunday, Mar. 23 from 4:00-6:00pm and from 9:30-10:30am, prior to the service.
A celebration of life will begin at 10:30am on Mar. 24 at Wilmore Presbyterian Church. The interment of her ashes will be at Camp Nelson National Cemetery at 2:30pm.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation to Wilmore Presbyterian Church, its Urban Village mission, or its Clean Cupboard mission.

Betts & West is honored to serve Evalina and her family in their time of need. An online guestbook is available at www.BettsAndWestFuneralHome.com