Evangeline Brice's Obituary
Evangeline Brice Evangeline ‘Eve’ Brice was born on September 17, 1922 to Annie and Elwood Reightler in Roanoke, Virginia and passed away October 1, 2013. Eve touched many lives with her quick wit, generous nature, and love for people. Eve was raised by her grandmother when her mother died after two weeks of life. While growing up on the East Coast during World War II she worked in the naval shipyards and traveled overseas singing with Bob Hope’s USO Tours entertaining our soldiers. She met and married St. John M. Brice and settled down in Dallas, Texas to start a family. They had two daughters, Jacqueline Lee and Donna Marie. In 1961 the family moved to Mesquite, Texas where she continued to work in the retail industry, participate in the Elks Lodge Auxiliary, and volunteered at the Goodbar Senior Citizen Center. When illness struck her family, Eve retired to take care of an ailing husband with lung cancer and a daughter with breast cancer. After their deaths in 1986, two months apart, she devoted her time to giving back to a city she loved. Eve joined the Rainbow Connection Choir singing for the city, made lap throws for nursing home residents, crocheted cap liners for our soldiers in Iraq, and worked at her daughter’s hobby shop. She will be forever missed by the lives she touched. Eve is survived by daughter, Donna Hilgenfeld; son-in-law, Ross Hilgenfeld; and grandson, Steven K. McBride. Memorial Service will be Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Restland Wildwood Chapel, Dallas.
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