Eulogy Evelyn Williamson Chambers
By Jeannette Doud

It’s springtime in Grand Marais, a beautiful little community on the shore of Lake Superior. It’s now adorned in a setting of fragrant full-blooming lilacs and apple blossoms. This is the birthplace of the late Evelyn Chambers, mother of nurse Ed Chambers of the Island and Dan and Pat of Muskegon. On the bright, warm, sunny day of Friday, June 3, in the quaint little First Lutheran Church, Pastor Robert Gardner was celebrant at a very moving memorial service attended by a host of family and friends.

Evelyn was a much loved member of the congregation and the community as well. Many of her favorite hymns were sung. Following the death of her husband, Alfred E. Chambers, she spent summer months in her little home on the bay in Grand Marais, where she could sit and hear the waves breaking on the shore. In the winters, she enjoyed being on the Island with Ed and Nona, or in Muskegon visiting Dan and Pat.

Family members attending the service were Evelyn’s favorite niece and her family, Carol and Bob Thompson from Edina, Minnesota, Nancy and Gene LaBorde from Appleton, Wisconsin, Jeannette Doud and Mark Chambers from Mackinac Island, and John Chambers from St. Ignace. Friends came from all over Michigan, Joan Slater, Sandy Arnold, Jason St. Onge, Maeve Croghan, and Stu Stewart from Mackinac, many neighbors from Dearborn, and Clint and Winnie Kirchoff, parents of Audrey Chambers, from Alpena.

Internment was in the Rose Hill Cemetery, beneath a towering pine tree on the shore of Lake Superior, next to her beloved husband, Alfred E. “Gunn” Chambers.

Goodness and mercy followed you all the days of your life, Evelyn, and now you dwell in the house of the Lord, forever.