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A lifelong resident of Chelsea, Evelyn passed away at the Massachusetts General Hospital after a brief illness on Wednesday January 11
th
, at 97 years of age. She was one of three children of the late Patrick J. and Mary A. (LeHane) Hayes. She was raised in Chelsea, attended local schools and graduated from Chelsea High School together with the class of 1937. She was married to Lawrence P. Goff and together they kept residence in Evelyn's family childhood home in the Mill Hill neighborhood of Chelsea on Crescent Ave. A child of the depression, she valued a strong work ethic and began her career as a telephone operator. She began working with New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. as one of the original "Chelsea Girls" working from the CH-elsea exchange. She remained with the telephone company throughout all the changes, innovations and name changes from NYNEX to Verizon before taking her retirement nearly 25 years ago. She was better known to family and friends as "Ebbie" or "Aunt Ebbie". In her retirement years Evelyn remained active and involved in life, whether playing games of Bocci Ball at Voke Park or bus trips to the casinos and she could always be relied on to recommend a good restaurant or other venue to enjoy good food and fellowship. "Ebbie" was a member and active participant at both the Chelsea Senior Center on Riley Way and the Rossetti-Cowen Senior Center in Revere and she was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America. In addition to her parents Evelyn was widowed in 2002 with the passing of her beloved husband Lawrence and was also preceded in death by her sister and brother, their spouses and added in-laws; Ellen and Raymond Higgins, John and Theresa Hayes, Peter, John, and James Goff, Lucy Hilton, Mildred Barry and Marion Reardon. She is survived by her loving and caring nieces and nephews; Maureen Nagle, Linda Molineaux, Buddy and Paul Hilton, Bobby and Jack Barry and she is also survived by many beloved grandnieces and grandnephews.
ARRANGEMENTS: Her Funeral will begin from the Frank A. Welsh & Sons Funeral Home 718 Broadway CHELSEA on Tuesday January 17 th , at 10:00 A.M. Followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Michael the Archangel Chapel, 91 Crest Ave, Chelsea at 11:00 A.M. Services will conclude with Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. Relatives and friends are most kindly invited to attend. Visiting hours will be held at the Welsh Funeral Home on Monday from 4 - 8 P.M. Funeral Home fully handicap accessible, ample parking opposite Funeral Home.
DONATIONS: Should friends desire, contributions in her memory can be made to a charity of their choice
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ARRANGEMENTS: Her Funeral will begin from the Frank A. Welsh & Sons Funeral Home 718 Broadway CHELSEA on Tuesday January 17 th , at 10:00 A.M. Followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Michael the Archangel Chapel, 91 Crest Ave, Chelsea at 11:00 A.M. Services will conclude with Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. Relatives and friends are most kindly invited to attend. Visiting hours will be held at the Welsh Funeral Home on Monday from 4 - 8 P.M. Funeral Home fully handicap accessible, ample parking opposite Funeral Home.
DONATIONS: Should friends desire, contributions in her memory can be made to a charity of their choice
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Mass of Christian Burial
January
17
Tuesday
St. Michael the Archangel Chapel
Starts at 11:00 am
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