Luann Evans Landon

Luann Evans Landon was born on March 12, 1940 in Greensboro, Georgia to Edward Copelan Evans and Luann Foster Evans. A graduate of Harpeth Hall School of Nashville, she was an honor’s graduate of Radcliffe College. There she met her future husband, David Landon, a student at Harvard. They were married on September 11,1961 at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City. After a number of years in Paris and Nashville, Luann and David moved to Sewanee, Tennessee, where David joined the faculty of the University of the South. Luann was a beloved member of the Sewanee community for fifty years. She was well known for her devotion to the opportunities for beauty in the conduct of daily life. Her cookbook-memoir, Dinner at Miss Lady’s, was published in 1999, her collection of formal poems, South Bound, in 2016. In her later years she found joy in commemorating the moment to moment mystery of life in very short poems: “We will be buried / side by side / forever not touching, ” (Sewanee Review, Winter 2020). She died in her home with her husband by her side on March 15, 2025.

Her memorial service will be at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at All Saints Chapel, followed by committal in the University Cemetery and a reception in McGriff Alumni House in Sewanee. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the on-going ministry of All Saints Chapel.

Moore-Cortner Funeral Home 300 1st Ave NW, Winchester, TN 37398, (931)967-2222, www.moorecortner.com