Evelyn Wallace Galvin

joining siblings Waddell, Dorothy, and twin brothers Howe and David to make up the Wallace clan. She

recounted life on a chicken farm, with duties including feeding chickens and washing out their pens, a

rooster that would chase her to the school bus in the mornings. She had fond memories of the

mischievous twin brother, Howe, and she sneaking food to the family dog, and playing tricks on David,

their brother. She began a lifelong relationship with her dearest Adele, caretaker for the family.

After high school she was sent to Montreat College in North Carolina, an all women's finishing school.

After completing her time at Montreat she returned to Atlantic Beach, Florida and began a family with

husband, Kenneth Brooke, and had a son, Kenneth, daughter Deborah, and youngest daughter Barbara.

During this time she would join up again with school-aged best friends, Helen Adeeb and Nina Johansen.

Evelynne's husband, Kenneth, passed away at a young age while living in Atlantic Beach.

In 1967 Evelynne met William Galvin through mutual friends at a dinner in Jacksonville. It was love at first

sight and the two married at the Atlantic Beach Presbyterian Church with reception at the Johansens'

restaurant, Le Chateau, in Atlantic Beach. The newly blended family of Bill's young daughter, Joan, and

Evelynne's three, then welcomed a fifth member, daughter Kelly, a year later. Living in Miami with Bill and

the family, Evelynne became an entrepreneur of her own and sold Shaklee vitamin supplements which had her hosting potluck dinners and taking business trips around Florida. Her husband Bill's business was

growing and they entertained clients constantly, where she became a hostess extraordinaire - she was the first Martha Stewart - no one could impress by timing the presentation of a souffle straight out of the oven like her.

In the early 1980s Evelynne and Bill were living in Washington D.C. and had a beautiful retreat in the Shenandoah Mountains an hour outside of D.C., and it became a hub for large family gatherings at all the holidays where traditions were born, and families were divided into Pilgrims or Indians for competitions and games of all sorts. Evelynne grew bushes of blueberries and raspberries and planted hundreds of lilies. She cleared multiple walking paths far up into the woods behind the house with the help of a groundskeeper, Slim, and managed to always keep those paths raked and free of leaves, a feat that only she could accomplish.

Evelynne and Bill retired to Ponte Vedra Beach in 2000 with youngest daughter, Kelly, and family in tow. The last 20 years Evelynne would volunteer at her grandson's school in Ponte Vedra, worship at Palm Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville Beach, and enjoy time with sister-in-law, Marvel Wallace, native Jacksonvillian. They had a group that would meet up to play bridge and drink wine, including Marvel, Helen, and Nina, lifelong friends. She and Bill enjoyed taking cruises and driving around the country to visit family and dear friends.

Evelynne is survived by her son, Kenneth Brooke, daughter, Deborah (Brooke) McGinnis and son-in-law,

Richard McGinnis, daughter, Barbara (Brooke) Reynolds, step-daughter, Joan

(Galvin) Newhouse and son-in-law, Dan Newhouse, and daughter, Kelly (Galvin) Broomfield and son-in-law, Ted Broomfield, plus all the grandchildren and great-grandchildren that go along with a great big family but are too numerous to list but loved immensely. There will never be another like Evelynne.