CAMBRIDGE - Evelyn E. Tanner passed away on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 at Chesapeake Woods Center. She was born in Cambridge on Jan. 2, 1923 and was a daughter of the late Jeremiah and Lena Simmons Lewis. She graduated from Cambridge High School class of 1940. After high school, Mrs. Tanner was employed at Phillips Packing Company, then with Kerr-McGee and later she was employed with the State of Maryland with the Department of Social Services as a fiscal clerk and retired at the age 61. On March 15, 1946, she married Walter W. Tanner, Sr. Mrs. Tanner was a member of Grace United Methodist Church for seventy six years and the Cambridge Lodge #1272 B.P.O.E. Elks. Besides her parents, Mrs. Tanner is preceded in death by a brother, Brice Lewis; and a sister, E. Lewis. She is survived by her husband, Walter W. Tanner, Sr. of Cambridge. Pallbearers will be Michael Baker, Alvin Moore, Raymond Baker, Alan Tanner, Randy Bradford and Ricky Cannon. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 at Thomas Funeral Home, P.A. in Cambridge with Rev. Christina Blake officiating. Interment will follow at Greenlawn Cemetery. Family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.