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EVELYN GRACE DEMPSEY (GREEN, née CALVERT)
Born: Mar 07, 1920
Date of Passing: Apr 07, 2019
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EVELYN GRACE DEMPSEY
(GREEN, née CALVERT)
She was born in Winnipeg on March 7, 1920. Mom was the youngest of her four siblings and second daughter to her parents, Burnham and Mary Helena Calvert.
She is survived by her son Harold Green (partner Lynn), daughter Joy Lenton (Gary), and youngest son David Green (Leslie); grandchildren, Jamie, Lisa, Crystal, Jeffrey, Darcy, and Sean; and great-grandchildren, Jaxon, Ethan, Oliver, Isla, Jahseena and Jahlyrika. She was predeceased by her parents and siblings, granddaughter Krista Dawn in 1977, grandson Kyle in 2012, her first husband David Green in 1969 and her second husband William (Bill) Dempsey in 2008. She is also survived by Bill's children, Billy Dempsey (Jennifer), David Dempsey (Karen), and Shawna Dempsey, as well as several grandchildren and great-grand-children from their families.
Mom spent the first seven years of her life in Winnipeg until the family moved to their farm at Pleasant Point, approximately nine miles southeast of Carberry, MB in 1927. Mom attended the country school at Pleasant Point and completed grades 10 to 12 in Carberry. During these later three years she and her adopted sister Dorothy Stewart would spend the week in town and did light housekeeping work to help with room and board. During 1939, she took a homemaking course and received a medal award for achievement. This intrigued her to decide to enroll in teacher training at the Normal School in Winnipeg from 1940 to 1941. She obtained her teaching certificate and began teaching in her first classroom at Prosser School just a few miles southeast of Carberry. Mom also taught at Fairfield and Highview rural schools in the Killarney area. She taught for several months at the Ninette Sanitorium until her daughter, Joy, contracted chicken pox. She spent most of her 25 plus years teaching Grade 5 at the Killarney Elementary School. Mom was a dedicated teacher putting in countless evening hours checking students' workbooks after supper.
In 1946, Mom married Dave Green from the Hullet District near Killarney. Early years were spent on the farm and Mom commuted to teaching jobs until the family moved into Killarney around 1957. After Dave's passing in 1969, Mom married Bill Dempsey in 1974, who was also originally from Carberry. Bill had a successful career in Toronto, so the next 30 years were spent down east. However, each year they would come back to Carberry and spend the summer on Bill's family farm. At the persuasion of family, Bill and Evelyn moved back to Carberry in 2004 to be closer to where family could visit more frequently and help out in their aging years.
Mom was a strong willed, dedicated, independent individual. She was a longstanding member of United Church Women's Institute (UCWI) and involved in the United Churches in Killarney, Toronto, and Carberry. She enjoyed her china painting hobby while in Toronto and the china baby boots she made for her grandchildren are well cherished.
The family would like to thank home care (HC) staff who assisted Mom in Carberry and her regular HC staff members in Winnipeg (Diane, Rena, Kuljit and Nicel), as well as the occasional substitute personnel who navigated Mom's strong independent personality. Appreciation is also expressed to Seven Oaks Hospital staff that cared for Mom over the last month.
The funeral service will be held at the United Church in Carberry, Manitoba on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, please provide contributions to a charity of your choice.
White's Funeral Home is in care of funeral arrangements.
As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Apr 13, 2019
Condolences & Memories (2 entries)
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Mrs. Dempsey, that is what she was called when I knew her, was very kind. Once when I was 21 years old I decided to see Canada on a 30 day Via Rail Pass. When I got to Jasper, Alberta, I decided to rent a bicycle and bike from Jasper to Banff. I had no equipment, nor the right clothes. Initially, I started bicycling with my wide-bottom pants, which would get stuck in the gear, making the bottom of the pants extremely dirty. Then, somehow I got my hands on a pair of cycling shorts. However, the damage was done and my pants had bicycle grease on the bottom. I went to Banff, returned the bike to the outlet of the bike rental company, and then got myself to Vancouver on the train. I got to Vancouver late on a Friday, and all the banks were closed. I couldn't remember the pin of my access card for my bank, so I ended up really starving for the next two days until my train ride back on the Sunday. Luckily some kind soul bought me food for lunch on Saturday, and there was leftover packaged food at the hostel. From Vancouver, I went straight to Carberry on the train, for my parents had called up the Dempseys, and begged them to keep me there for a week until the end of the 30 day Via Rail pass. When I got off the train at Carberry I must have been quite a sight. I had my fishing rod sticking out of my backpack and I was wearing the wide-bottom pants with the bicycle grease on them. However, Mrs. Dempsey was the kindest soul. Without saying a word she scrubbed them by hand to make sure as much of the grease could come out as possible. A few years later when my sister had her first baby, and we were taking a photo, I took a dress that I had gotten from Bargain Harold's over to her house, and we altered it together to make it picture-worthy. I will never forget it. I really did love her. She was like a grandmother to me. - Posted by: Dr. Dorsa Zarrabian (Neighbour in Scarborough, Ontario) on: Aug 06, 2021
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Evelyn will be missed.A kind and loving woman. - Posted by: Charmaine Hedgecock (Dave's sister-in-law ) on: Apr 13, 2019