Bob Evans

Robert Lewis Evans (May 30, 1918 – June 21, 2007) was an American restaurateur and marketer of pork sausage products. He founded a restaurant chain bearing his name. The company also owns Owens Country Sausage. Early life and career Evans was born on May 30, 1918, to Stanley Lewis Evans and Elizabeth Evans (née Lewis) in Sugar Ridge, Ohio, located in Center Township in Wood County, Ohio, where his father and uncle farmed on rented land. The family moved to Gallia County, Ohio, in 1929 to be near relatives. The family settled in Gallipolis, Ohio, where his father owned and managed a grocery store. Evans attended public schools in Gallipolis and graduated with honors in 1937 from the Greenbrier Military School, a boys-only private military boarding high school in Lewisburg, West Virginia. He attended Ohio State University School of Veterinary Medicine from 1937 to 1939. Evans married Jewell Victoria Waters (November 4, 1919 – July 24, 2019) in June 1940. They moved to Gallipolis, where he bought a restaurant named the Malt Shop in the early 1940s. When Evans was inducted into the Army in 1943, he sold his interest in the restaurant to a friend.