1.  Greetings and a Christmas song
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2. Eva grows up as an only child
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3. Eva takes piano lessons from Bessie Todd, an unusual woman
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4. Eva tells about her grandmother & summers at her house on the country
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5. Eva's father ran an electric lighting store (since he advertised with the theater she got into the movies free)
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6. The Depression hit just as Eva graduated from high school; the family moved to Michigan
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7. Eva tells how she met her husband Art Thayer
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8. Eva acknowledges all the wonderful people she's met
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9. Eva tells about her husband's growing up
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10. How Eva and Art developed a life together
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11. Eva and Art get married
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12. Eva and Art moved to the highest hill in Pittsburgh
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13. Their first child, Bill, is born and they moved to Pleasant Hill; Becky is born; Eva starts teaching piano
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14. After seven years, they moved back home to Ohio; Art got a job at Libby Owens Glass; Ted is born
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15. They build their dream house; Eva tells about her feelings for Art
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16. Another house, another baby, Susan; Art's dream of piloting a boat through the Great Lakes
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17. Skiing!
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18. The cottage at Lakeside Retreat Center
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19. The children grow up and develop their own lives
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20. Eva tells about her grandchildren
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21. Life in the motorhome
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22. Travel by train to the Rose Bowl
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23. Flying to Hawaii with a tour group
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24. Visit to San Jose, Costa Rica; meeting new friends;
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25. Sailing in the Caribbean
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26. Visiting Brazil
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27. Art retired in 1977, he died in 1983; everybody loved him
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28. Eva came to live with Susan in Texas in 1989
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29. Eva thinks about the strength of her relationship with Art; and thinks about how wonderful her life has been
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Eva Thayer lived a wonderful life.
She died on May 22, 2013 at age 98 and a half.


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On September 21, 2013, friends of Eva's gathered and told stories of knowing--and loving--Eva Thayer.
Following the gathering, Eva's ashes were dispersed out in the country near Bandera Texas.

Click Here to see photos of that Final Ceremony