Evelyn E. Buraus, passed away on Monday, January 16, 2012, at Parsons Hill Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. She was 92. Evelyn was born in Hartford, CT. She was the only child born to Ellen M. (Johnson) and Walter Hjlmar Ekholm. Evelyn spent most of her childhood in Fitchburg, moving to New Jersey during her senior year of high school. She settled down and lived in New Jersey for the next 42 years. Besides being a homemaker and mother, she enjoyed tending her garden and feeding the backyard birds. Evelyn belonged to the Belleville, New Jersey Women's Club for more than 20 years. She moved to Worcester in 1980.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Richard A. and Pia M. Buraus; her granddaughter and her husband, Alycia P. and Antonio P. Pistone and their 3 children - Isabella and twins, Giuseppe and Lily - and her grandson, Beau R. Buraus. She will be sadly missed.
The graveside funeral service will be held Thursday, January 19, 2012, at 12 o'clock noon in Forest Hill Cemetery, 115 Mt. Elam Rd., Fitchburg, MA. To leave an online memory or condolence message, please click link below.