A funeral mass for Evelyn Isabel Seyman will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 29, at St. Peters Catholic Church in Dixon, followed by graveside services at the Silveyville Cemetery. Visitation will be held Wednesday, April 28, 5 - 8 p.m. with rosary at 7 p.m. at Carpenters Funeral Home in Dixon.She was preceded in death by James, her devoted husband of 60 years. She is survived by her four sons, Richard, William, James, and John and her daughters-in-law, Roberta, Carmen, and Anne-Marie as well as by her grandchildren, Innisfree, Raven, Lia, James, and David. Born in Acadia Valley, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Melvin Smith and Katherine MacDonnell Smith, who homesteaded and built a successful farm in the 1920s Evelyn and her three brothers, Bill, George, and Don grew up out on the prairie. At fifteen she left home to attend a Catholic girls high school in Medicine Hat. From there she entered upon her nurses training at Holy Cross Nurses Academy in Calgary. At Holy Cross Evelyn made life-long friendships with her roommates. It would be a pattern she would repeat over and over again with so many people whose lives she touched as a nurse and as neighbor. After the war, Evelyn returned with James to his home town, Dixon, California. Keeping her love for her native country and her friends in Canada, she made wonderful new friends everywhere she worked and lived here in California. Her professional nursing career lasted almost forty years. Depending upon the needs of her family and the demands of raising four sons, she worked either full time or part time as a nurse at the UC Davis Student Health Center, the Woodland Clinic, in practice with Dixon Doctor John Gullick, and finally as a psychiatric nurse at the California State (prison) Medical Facility in Vacaville. During their later years Evelyn and Jim spent most summers traveling north to visit family and friends in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. And since 1990, they also made many enjoyable trips to their son Jims restaurant, the Tower Caf in Sacramento. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory can be made to: UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute 2825 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/giving/memorialtribute/ Or by phone at: (916) 703-0289.
