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 Evelyn Virginia Fahey
March 26, 2004
Evelyn Virginia Fahey, 87, formerly of 44 Egremont Ave., died Friday at Mansfield Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Storrs, Conn., where she had resided for the past year.
Born in Pittsfield on Dec. 24, 1916, daughter of Chaloner O. and Minnie E. Langenback Whitaker, she attended local schools.
Mrs. Fahey was employed in the cafeteria at Egremont School and, before that, as a seamstress at the former Textiles Store. She had worked at GE before her marriage.
A member of First Baptist Church for 68 years, she was choir mother and a Sunday school teacher, and a member of its Liwomi and Friendship chapters.
She enjoyed gardening, oil painting, collecting antiques, music and growing African violets.
Her husband, William Edward Fahey, whom she married June 6, 1938, died in April 2002.
She leaves a daughter, Grace Fahey Riesen of Storrs, Conn.; four sisters, Lillian Shiels of Kingston, N.Y., Ruth Best of Eustis, Fla., Barbara Whitaker of Raleigh, N.C., and Dorothy Chapman of Dalton; a brother, Chaloner Whitaker Jr. of Waxahachie, Texas; two grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. A son, William Fahey, died in infancy.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- The funeral for Evelyn Fahey, who died March 26, 2004, will be conducted Tuesday at 11 at First Baptist Church of Pittsfield, 88 South St., by the Rev. Dr. Robert Rennie, pastor, and the Rev. Ronald Baker, pastor of First Baptist Church of Mansfield.
Burial will be at a later date in the Maple Street Cemetery in Hinsdale. Calling hours will be Tuesday from 10 until the time of the service; light luncheon refreshments will follow. If friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to the Music Fund of First Baptist Church of Pittsfield in care of WELLINGTON FUNERAL HOME, 220 East St., Pittsfield, MA 01201.
She leaves her son-in-law, Dr. John Reisen; two grandchildren, Dr. William Reisen and his wife, Mary Ann, of Mason City, Iowa, and Carol Bigl and her husband, Jeffrey, of Willington, Conn., and six great-grandchildren, Nicholas, Anthony, Anna and Jacob Reisen, and Henry and Emily Bigl.
She was predeceased by two sisters, Minnie Sperling and Madeline Whitaker, and a brother, Leroy Whitaker.
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