Evelyn H. Thurston, 89, longtime resident of Middle Road in Cumberland, passed away on September 21, 2017.
She was born in Cumberland a daughter of Ernest C. and Hazel G. (Robbins) Frye, one of eight children. She was a graduate of Greely Institute where she left instructions to list two of her sports accomplishments, "made softball team as pitcher and basketball team as forward all four years of high school".
She soon married Willis Thurston and they built their home in Cumberland. She was a homemaker who took great pride in her role raising her children and baking pies and molasses cookies for Billy. He and their children became her world. She enjoyed ceramics, her flower gardens and spending time with family. She had two favorite feline friends, Fluffy and Daisey. Her passion was snowmobiling on Moosehead Lake.
Her friends knew her as the woman who nurtured many people with her baked goods and was always there for someone in need. Evelyn always had a twinkle in her eye and a can do attitude. She could be a real spitfire.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Willis (Billy) R. Thurston in 2006, after 55 years of marriage.
She is survived by her son, Brian Thurston and his wife Linda of Hampstead,NC and their two children, Benjamin and Megan; a daughter, Pamela Higgins and her husband Stephen Gardner of Divide, CO and her three children Cristopher Wood, Nicholas Higgins and Timothy Higgins; great-grandchildren, Tyler Wood and Austin Wood.
She was born in Cumberland a daughter of Ernest C. and Hazel G. (Robbins) Frye, one of eight children. She was a graduate of Greely Institute where she left instructions to list two of her sports accomplishments, "made softball team as pitcher and basketball team as forward all four years of high school".
She soon married Willis Thurston and they built their home in Cumberland. She was a homemaker who took great pride in her role raising her children and baking pies and molasses cookies for Billy. He and their children became her world. She enjoyed ceramics, her flower gardens and spending time with family. She had two favorite feline friends, Fluffy and Daisey. Her passion was snowmobiling on Moosehead Lake.
Her friends knew her as the woman who nurtured many people with her baked goods and was always there for someone in need. Evelyn always had a twinkle in her eye and a can do attitude. She could be a real spitfire.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Willis (Billy) R. Thurston in 2006, after 55 years of marriage.
She is survived by her son, Brian Thurston and his wife Linda of Hampstead,NC and their two children, Benjamin and Megan; a daughter, Pamela Higgins and her husband Stephen Gardner of Divide, CO and her three children Cristopher Wood, Nicholas Higgins and Timothy Higgins; great-grandchildren, Tyler Wood and Austin Wood.
Evelyn H. Thurston, 89, longtime resident of Middle Road in Cumberland, passed away on September 21, 2017.
She was born in Cumberland a daughter of Ernest C. and Hazel G. (Robbins) Frye, one of eight children. She was a graduate of Greely Institute where she left instructions to list two of her sports accomplishments, "made softball team as pitcher and basketball team as forward all four years of high school".
She soon married Willis Thurston and they built their home in Cumberland. She was a homemaker who took great pride in her role raising her children and baking pies and molasses cookies for Billy. He and their children became her world. She enjoyed ceramics, her flower gardens and spending time with family. She had two favorite feline friends, Fluffy and Daisey. Her passion was snowmobiling on Moosehead Lake.
Her friends knew her as the woman who nurtured many people with her baked goods and was always there for someone in need. Evelyn always had a twinkle in her eye and a can do attitude. She could be a real spitfire.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Willis (Billy) R. Thurston in 2006, after 55 years of marriage.
She is survived by her son, Brian Thurston and his wife Linda of Hampstead,NC and their two children, Benjamin and Megan; a daughter, Pamela Higgins and her husband Stephen Gardner of Divide, CO and her three children Cristopher Wood, Nicholas Higgins and Timothy Higgins; great-grandchildren, Tyler Wood and Austin Wood.
She was born in Cumberland a daughter of Ernest C. and Hazel G. (Robbins) Frye, one of eight children. She was a graduate of Greely Institute where she left instructions to list two of her sports accomplishments, "made softball team as pitcher and basketball team as forward all four years of high school".
She soon married Willis Thurston and they built their home in Cumberland. She was a homemaker who took great pride in her role raising her children and baking pies and molasses cookies for Billy. He and their children became her world. She enjoyed ceramics, her flower gardens and spending time with family. She had two favorite feline friends, Fluffy and Daisey. Her passion was snowmobiling on Moosehead Lake.
Her friends knew her as the woman who nurtured many people with her baked goods and was always there for someone in need. Evelyn always had a twinkle in her eye and a can do attitude. She could be a real spitfire.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Willis (Billy) R. Thurston in 2006, after 55 years of marriage.
She is survived by her son, Brian Thurston and his wife Linda of Hampstead,NC and their two children, Benjamin and Megan; a daughter, Pamela Higgins and her husband Stephen Gardner of Divide, CO and her three children Cristopher Wood, Nicholas Higgins and Timothy Higgins; great-grandchildren, Tyler Wood and Austin Wood.
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