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Sada May Johnson Eveleth

Birth	:	10 Jan 1910 Shelton, Mason County, Washington, USA
Death	:	26 Mar 2007 Shelton, Mason County, Washington, USA
Burial	:	Hadley Community Church Cemetery, Hadley, Lapeer County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.9507400, -83.4037500
Plot	:	I.O.O.F. 1, 9 2 B
Description	:	Sada M. Eveleth, a woman who preferred a good berry patch on a summer day to a tea party, died on March 26. She was 97 and a Shelton resident. She was born on January 20, 1910 as Sadie Mae Johnson, a new she regarded as stodgy and mundane. "My grandmother always called me Sada Mary, so I used that, liked it a lot better than Sadie," she would say. She had an independent nature, liked county life and, for most of her life, enjoyed the peace and quiet of rural Mason County, her family said. She was born in the home of... Read More	Sada M. Eveleth, a woman who preferred a good berry patch on a summer day to a tea party, died on March 26. She was 97 and a Shelton resident. She was born on January 20, 1910 as Sadie Mae Johnson, a new she regarded as stodgy and mundane. "My grandmother always called me Sada Mary, so I used that, liked it a lot better than Sadie," she would say. She had an independent nature, liked county life and, for most of her life, enjoyed the peace and quiet of rural Mason County, her family said. She was born in the home of an aunt located on Coat Street between Fifth and Sixth streets in Shelton. Her father, Albert Johnson, came from Iowa to New Kamilche as a boy in 1890. Her mother, Flora (Hilts) Johnson came from Michigan in 1905. She met and married Albert and lived there the rest of her life next to Goldsborough Creek west of Shelton. Mr. Johnson owned and operated a shingle mill on the south shore of Lost Lake, where Mrs. Eleveth lived for a time as a child. Much of early adult life was spent as a farm wife. She could worry the last drop of milk from the teats of a cow, slop hogs, feed her chickens, keep a fire going in the kitchen stove and have dinner ready when her family came in from their chores. She grew a garden, picked anything wild, canned everything, baked bread and could turn out the best mincemeat pie. As a child she learned photography using a Kodak pox camera. On graduating from Irene S. Reed High School, she worked at Heckman's studio at 124 Railroad Avenue, developing film, retouching negatives and tinting portraits and scenes. When the Shelton hospital got its first x-ray machine, she developed the film at the studio. She worked for Delany, then Andrews and then Dean Palmer as the photo shop changed hands over the years. She continued retouching work, doing it at home well into the 1960s. For a time, while living at Buck Prairie, she owned and operated a photo shop in Elma. She married Howard McIntosh. They later divorced. Then she married Marion Eveleth, a part-time farmer and employee of the Mason County Creamery in Shelton. They were the first owners of the former county poor farm in Isabella Valley after it was closed by Mason County and sold. They continued to supply pork, beef, chicks and other produce directly to Shelton schools and the hospital, as had been done previously by the county. After World War II, they moved to Buck Prairie and raised beef cattle. There she became a member of the Priscilla Club. In the early 1960s she worked at the state hospital in Elma as executive housekeeper and resided in McLeay. She retired in 1975 and moved to a home on Arcadia Shores Road, where she lived until May 2002. She moved to Fir Lane Health and Rehabilitation Center and remained there until her death. Beginning in high school and continuing into her early adulthood, she played the plectrum banjo in local dance bands and orchestras. She was an avid pinochle player and continued to play the game with her Cloquallum-area friends into her late 80s. Her favorite pastimes included reading, knitting, raising ducks and picking huckleberries and blackberries. In her retirement years, she spent many days waling the beach on Totten Inlet with her dog, Buddy, collecting agates. She was member of Saint Edward's Catholic Church and appreciated the many visits by church member Rose Stricker and Alice Chapman. She was preceded in death by husband Marion Eveleth in March 1975, brother Robert and sister Viola, son Keith in 1945 and daughter Flora Jean Burfiend in 2004. (Shelton-Mason County Journal (edited), April 12, 2007, Page 7; courtesy of Leslie Thompson Frisius)

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Where is Sada May Johnson Eveleth's memorial?
Sada May Johnson Eveleth's memorial is located at: Hadley Community Church Cemetery, Hadley, Lapeer County, USA.
When did Sada May Johnson Eveleth death?
Sada May Johnson Eveleth death on 26 Mar 2007 in Shelton, Mason County, Washington, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Sada May Johnson Eveleth's memorial?
Latitude: 42.9507400
Longitude: -83.4037500

Family Members:

Parent

Albert Monroe Johnson

(1875 - 1938)

Flora Louella Hilts Johnson

(1886 - 1960)

Spouse

Marion Wesley Eveleth

(1911 - 1975)

Siblings

Viola Elizabeth Johnson

(1908 - 1908)

Robert Kenneth Johnson

(1921 - 1936)

Children

Keith Raymond Eveleth

(1942 - 1945)

Paul Edwin Eveleth

(1945 - 2007)

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