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Evelyn Blanche Clifford
May 08, 2017

Obituary

Evelyn B. Clifford passed away on May 8, 2017. She was born April 12, 1920 to Blanche and Walter Blair in Mayville, Michigan. She grew up in Lapeer, Michigan, graduated from Lapeer High School, attending Albion College and Baker Business School in Flint.
In 1941 she married Navy Lt. Howard Simmons who was lost at sea in a typhoon that struck Okinawa in 1945.
Evelyn was an executive secretary at Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Michigan until her marriage to James H. Clifford in 1953. They resided in Glen Ellyn, Illinois where they raised their two daughters, Lisa and Colleen. Upon James’ retirement from Sears, Roebuck, & Co. in 1986, they moved to their beach front home on Lake Michigan in Coloma, Michigan. In December of 2014, they moved to Ventura, California to be closer to their family.
Evelyn was a member of the Algonquin Chapter of D.A.R, being a DAR member for over fifty years. She used her organizational and leadership talents as PTA President, Glen Ellyn Infant Welfare President, and as a volunteer at the Krasl Art Center.
Evelyn and James traveled the world, visiting every continent except South America and Antarctica, which each trip having its own photo album/scrapbook and travel log.
In addition to travel, Evelyn loved playing bridge, working the crossword puzzles, and entertaining, choosing to create a cookbook of favorite recipes for her family and close friends. She was especially pleased to share her prize-winning recipe for rhubarb pie.
She is survived by her husband, James, the love of her life, her daughters Lisa (Glen Gorski) and Colleen (Michael Neilson), her grandchildren James, Catie, Patrick (Sara Aist), and Evelyn and great granddaughters Inara and Eleanor. She was preceded in death by one sister, Mariane Davis.
Family and friends are invited to attend visiting hours to be held on Thursday afternoon May 25, 2017 from 1 to 5pm in the JOSEPH P. REARDON FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION SERVICE, 757 E. Main Street Ventura. Visiting hours will also be held on Friday evening May 26, 2017 from 5 to 8pm where a Most Holy Rosary will be recited in the Funeral Home at 7pm. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday May 27, 2017 at 1pm in the JOSEPH P. REARDON FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION SERVICE, Ventura. Interment will be in St. Paul's Church Cemetery, Valparaiso Indiana. In lieu of flowers, donations to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital will be greatly appreciated.


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Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home & Cremation Service
757 East Main Street
Ventura, CA 93001
805-643-8623