Avis Ruth Tuveng Evenson
Friday, September 26, 2008 5:29 PM CDT
Remembrance is a golden chain. Death tries to break, but all in vain. To have, to love, and then to part is the greatest sorrow of one’s heart. The years may wipe out many things. But some they wipe out never. Like memories of those happy times, when we were all together.
Avis Ruth Tuveng Evenson left this life on Feb. 22, 2008, in Dallas, Texas. After fighting a long battle with cancer, she passed away peacefully in her home. Avis requested not to have a public service. She willed her body to the Willed-Body program at Southwest Medical School in Dallas. There she was cremated and returned to her family to be put in her final resting place beside her husband and parents in Wisconsin. I know that she was happy to see her loved ones who preceded her into heaven.
Avis was born April 19, 1930, in Boyceville. She was preceded in death by her parents, Albert and Ruth Tuveng; husband, Alvin William Evenson; daughter, Regina Ellen Evenson; and great- grandson, Jacob Dillon Matias.
She is survived by her sister, Carol Mariani; daughters, RoxAnne McNealy and RandAnce Evenson; and grandchildren, Kim Travis McNealy, Ivy Dawn Matias, Jonathan Neil Roganti, Rachell Yvette Costin, Abby Renae Roganti and Matthew Lewis Moore. She is also the great-grandmother of Gabriel Ryan Matias, Denae Laren Matias, Carson Sarah McNealy, Luke William Matias, Faith Emily Matias and Jazmyne Elise Paige. She will also be leaving behind numerous nephews, nieces, cousins and friends.
Avis had a busy life; she was an active member at Walnut Hill Lutheran Church since 1959. She was also a member of the Norwegian Society, and a member of the Dystonia Support Group.
Since she did not wish to have a public service, we will be having a celebration of her life. This will be graveside on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church Cemetery in Wheeler. Because this is a graveside service, please do not send flowers; instead, bring your memories of Avis Evenson.
"I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Put no difference in your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Play, smile, think of me. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was. There is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? All is well." ~ Henry Scott Holland (shortened from What is Death?) |
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