EVELYN LUCILLE KENNEDY, PASSED AWAY NOVEMBER 18, 1998 AT VULCAN EXTENDICARE NURSING HOME, AT THE AGE OF 95 YEARS.
EVELYN WAS BORN AT GRISWALD, IOWA, AUGUST 28, 1903. SHE CAME TO DINTON, ALBERTA IN MARCH 1904 WITH HER MOTHER MAGGIE, FATHER JOHN AND BROTHER RUSSELL. WHERE HER FATHER JOHN HOMESTEADED WITH HIS BROTHER. SHE ATTENDED HILLCREST SCHOOL, NORTH OF BLACKIE TO GRADE EIGHT. SHE WOULD RIDE HER PONY TO AND FROM SCHOOL, AND TWO OR THREE TIMES A DAY SHE WOULD FALL OFF THE PONY, BECAUSE HER PONY WAS SPOOKED EASILY, BUT WOULD ALWAYS WAIT FOR HER, TO GET BACK ON AND HEAD HOME.
HER FATHER DIED IN 1917 AND BEING THE OLDEST OF SEVEN CHILDREN, EVELYN LEFT SCHOOL TO HELP HER MOTHER AT HOME. SHE COOKED ON A HARVEST COOK CAR AT AGE FIFTEEN AND WHEN SHE WAS SIXTY-THREE SHE COOKED AT EXTENDICARE FOR ALMOST A YEAR.
EVELYN MET EDGAR KENNEDY WHO CAME FROM NOVA SCOTIA. THEY WERE MARRIED, WHEN HE RETURNED FROM SERVING OVERSEAS IN THE ARMY, IN 1924. THEY LIVED IN BLACKIE AND ED WORKED FOR THE C.P.R. UNTIL RETIRING AND THEY MOVED TO VULCAN IN 1963. ED PASSED AWAY IN 1973 AND EVELYN KEPT BUSY WITH HER FAMILY, HOME, GARDEN, FLOWERS, FRIENDS, GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
EVELYN LOVED HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS, HER MEMBERSHIPS AT BOTH THE VULCAN DROP-IN CENTRE AND VULCAN UNITED CHURCH. SHE ENJOYED COOKING, GARDENING, CROCHETING, KNITTING, SEWING, PLAYING CARDS AND WATCHING BASEBALL GAMES.
EVELYN MOVED INTO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE IN 1994 WHERE SHE ENJOYED HER NEW SURROUNDINGS, THEN INTO EXTENDICARE IN SEPTEMBER 1997 WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
BELOVED MOTHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS FERN (RALPH) KERSEY OF CALGARY, LOIS (BILL) DIETZ OF MILO, MARJORIE (GARTH) SAUNDERS OF B.C., A SON DON KENNEDY OF CALGARY, A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW MARION KENNEDY OF NOVA SCOTIA FOURTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
EVELYN WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND EDGAR, TWO DAUGHTERS JUNE KENNEDY AND SHIRLEY CAREY, TWO SONS LLOYD AND GORDON KENNEDY, A SISTER KATHERINE BOTH, THREE BROTHERS CHARLES, RUSSELL AND LEE BOTH AND HER PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1998 AT 1:30 P.M. AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. LORRAINE POWELL OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT BLACKIE CEMETERY AT 4:00 P.M.
CASKET BEARERS WERE BRIAN KERSEY, TERRY BURGESS, WES DEITZ, LLOYD DEITZ, GERALD DEITZ AND GARRY HAGEN.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES IN EVELYN’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO S.T.A.R.S. 1441 AVIATION PARK N.E. BOX 570 CALGARY, ALBERTA T2E 8M7.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME DIRECTORS, TELEPHONE 485-2633.