Eva M. Stevens

WEST STEWARTSTOWN – Eva Mae Stevens, 89, passed away on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, at the Coös County Nursing Hospital in West Stewartstown, after a period of declining health. Her sister Ethel and her two daughters, Eva Mae and Dottie, were with her when she passed. She was born in West Stewartstown on Sept. 24, 1926, a daughter to the late Wesley and Myrtle (Shaw) Mills. She was a 1944 graduate of Canaan Memorial High School. She married Shirley Stevens on Nov. 27, 1944. The Stevens’ family lived for many years on a dairy farm in Bloomfield, Vt., They moved to Amherst, NH, in December, 1966. While living there Eva worked as a cashier at First National Grocery Store. She and her husband returned to the north country in 1983. When she first got back she made donuts at the donut shop in Colebrook. Because she had to get up at 4:30 to make the donuts her family would laugh many times and say ”it’s time to make the donuts.” Later, she worked as a teacher’s aide for special needs children in the North Stratford school. Eva loved to cook. Cooking for family and friends was her loving way of welcoming people to her home. It didn’t matter if 1 or 10 showed up, she would feed them. In her earlier years, while farming, she cooked at the Bloomfield Hotel and at the Silver Dollar Grill She is survived by her two sons, Fred Stevens and wife Diane of Goffstown, NH, and Burton Stevens of San Francisco, Calif.; a daughter, Sandra Sheltry of Cantonment, Fla.; a brother, Albert Mills of Holiday, Tex., and a sister Ethel Goodrum of Colebrook; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Elsie Noyes of Colebrook and Elizabeth Mercer of Wilmington, NC. She is preceded in death by a daughter Janice in 1969, a grandson, Michael in 1972, her husband Shirley Stevens in 2006, and a brother, Richard Mills in 2007. The family will receive visitors at Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home on Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at 11 a.m. with a short funeral service to follow at 1 p.m. at the funeral home. There will be a graveside service to immediately follow. Expressions of sympathy in memory of Eva may be made to the CCNH Residents’ Fund, PO Box 10, W. Stewartstown, NH 03597. Condolences may be offered to the family on-line by going to www.jenkinsnewman.com. Funeral arrangements in NH are under the direction of Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home in Colebrook.

Eva M. Stevens

September 24, 1926 - June 29, 2016