Dr. Richard Evans III

SARASOTA, Fla. – Dr. Richard Evans III, 92, died peacefully on March 4, 2026, in Sarasota, Fla., with his partner of six years, Jean Rosenblum, and daughters Morgan and Leah close at hand.

He enjoyed the last several years of his life wintering in Sarasota and spending summers on Highland Lake in Maine with Jean. They traveled extensively together and took great pleasure in attending concerts, plays, and cultural events together in Sarasota and in Maine.

Richard was born on May 11, 1933 in Minneapolis, Minn., to Richard Evans Jr. and Dorothy Evans (nee Engels). His family moved frequently during his childhood; he later said he had attended a different Catholic parochial school every year until he was in high school. The family struggled financially. Richard and his younger brother Robert (Bob) however, grew to be handsome and ambitious young men, and supported each other as both strove to achieve more stable circumstances than those into which they had been born.

At age 17, Richard left high school and enlisted in the Navy, where he served as a radio man during the Korean War. After he left the Navy, his myriad adventures included a stint as a copy boy on the New York Daily News. He then made the decision to pursue medical school, and returned to Minnesota to complete pre-med coursework and medical training at the University of Minnesota, working in the summer as a railroad switchman.

In a summer chemistry class at U Minn, he met Kay Rivers Hamilton, a young woman with considerable ambitions of her own, and concluded almost immediately that she was The One. He spent the next several years studying hard and working to convince Kay to share this perspective. In the summer of 1966, she took a position as an au pair to a family in England. Richard promptly embarked to England himself, purchased a motorcycle, and convinced Kay to climb on the back and join him in an impromptu tour of Europe, during which they often posed as a married couple in order to secure accommodations. At the end of the journey, Richard proposed that they make it official. Kay instructed him to get out of her hair for a week so she could think about it. He obediently went off to Ireland, and on his return to London, they were married by a justice of the peace, who informed them that Monday was the best day to be married as the flowers would be fresh.

Upon finishing residency in Brooklyn, Richard and Kay drove up the coast and fell in love with Maine. He practiced as a general practitioner in Wiscasset and eventually pursued a second residency in the first year of the psychiatry residency at Maine Medical Center. He had a private practice in Brunswick for many years until taking a job at the Togus VA where his training and life experience were equally important in treating veterans with PTSD – work that he loved.

After a number of magical years on Westport Island, the family settled in Bowdoinham in 1980, where he and Kay became fully integrated members of the community, serving on the Select Board, the Planning Board, the School Committee and the Solid Waste Committee between the two of them. Richard loved Maine – hunting, ice skating, sailing, hiking, making music, skiing (both kinds), canoeing, and eating cookies from the Town Landing.

His last iteration of a life well-lived was taking up the study of art eventually settling on metal sculpture – blacksmithing and welding – which was his focus for the last few decades.

He is survived by Jean; his daughters Morgan Evans Suta and Leah Evans Wong; six grandchildren, Madoc, Zane, Leif, Ulysses, Niko and August. He was pre-deceased by his sister Betty, his brother Bob, and in 2008 by his wife of 42 years, Kay.

There will be a celebration of his life this summer in Bowdoinham with the date still to be set.