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- Evelyn Marie Mach Mabie, age 81, passed away on Monday, July 25, 2011, in Winter Haven, Florida.
She was born August 7, 1929, in Yankton, South Dakota, the ninth of 10 children born to Bohemian and Moravian parents, John Mach and Anna Hamberger Mach of Scotland, South Dakota. She was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith in Sts. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church in Vodnany, South Dakota, on August 10, 1929, and she was confirmed in the same church on May 5, 1941.
After graduation from Scotland High School in Scotland, South Dakota, Evelyn attended nursing school at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, earned a nursing degree and became a registered nurse. Her first nursing position was in Kansas City, Missouri, before moving to Miami, Florida, where she worked at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
While in Miami, she met Charles Glendon Mabie. The two were married on September 11, 1954, in Fardale, New Jersey. She gave birth to their daughter, Brenda Sue, on July 20, 1956. Evelyn continued her nursing career in New Jersey and in Sarasota, Florida, until her retirement.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Louis, John, Norbert, Ladislav, Edward and Thomas, and her sisters, Helen, Louise and Marcella.
She is survived by her husband of almost 57 years, her daughter and son-in-law, John Randolph Bibb, Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee, one granddaughter, Jean-Marie Elizabeth Clark, and her husband, Ryan Nelson Clark, and one great granddaughter, Marjorie Bibb Clark, all of Franklin, Tennessee
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1929 - 2011 (81 years)
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