1. Donna
2. Christopher
3. Sharon

1. Florence
2. William
3. Francis G.
4. Joyce Kathleen
5. Glenn Ross

EVERINGHAM, Ivan William Edward. Died peacefully August 3, 2010, at The Pines, in Bracebridge, Ontario, at age 89. Ivan leaves behind his beloved wife Jean, his children Donna (Bill Murray), Christopher (Lyn) & Sharon (Doug Bulmer), his grandchildren Heather, David & Amanda, and great grandchildren Skye, Ethan & Rylan. He is survived by his sister Kathleen Ross and predeceased by brothers Frank & Glenn Everingham. Ivan served as a gunner with the RCAF in WWII and flew in escort and combat missions over both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. As a decorated veteran, Ivan was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion. After marrying Jean in 1944, they settled in Toronto, where Ivan became a master plumber (Local #46) and worked on most of the large office towers in the downtown area. In 1964 they moved their family to Mississauga. After retiring from the Borough of Etobicoke as a Building Inspector, Ivan & Jean moved to Port Carling, Ontario in 1999 where they made many new friends while enjoying Muskoka.

OBITUARY Jean Everingham Nov 12, 1917 - June 29, 2023 (age 105) A good woman has left us all, after 105 1/2 years on this earth.
Mom was born in Edmonton, Alberta of good Polish/Ukranian stock. She is predeceased by her 6 siblings. She married Ivan in October, 1944, he sadly passed away in August, 2010. They are survived by their 3 children: Donna, Christopher and Sharon and many grands, great grands and nieces and nephews. Mom had so many, many friends along her lengthy journey, wherever she was, that will remember her well.

Bracebridge woman reflects on 100 years of love and happiness Jean Everingham turned 100 on Nov. 12. By Mary Beth Hartill Bracebridge Examiner Newspaper Monday, November 20, 2017.

BRACEBRIDGE - Jean Everingham is a happy person. She likes to walk up and down the corridor of her Bracebridge condominium building, she attends church regularly and she likes to travel around town in her little Kia Soul. She says there is no trick to living to 100 but, "I enjoyed every day, counted it every day and I was busy every day."
The night before she turned 100 she says she prayed to God and said, "I might be here tomorrow and I might not," so I put on my best nighty and I went to bed," she said. At the end of the day she put her gown on and said, "Thank you God. I'm here. I made it."
Although she admits she wasn't a boy crazy teenager and preferred to play baseball and the company of friends, her story reads like a historical romance. Her parents were happily married for 65 years. They met on a ship from Europe to Canada, among those taking advantage of government land grants. Sam was from Poland and Anna from Ukraine. They married on Canadian soil. The Stepanik family lived in a small house in what is now South Edmonton. Life was not easy but Jean said they were always happy. She and her twin were two of nine children, three who died as children. The twins were born in 1917. At the age of six, Jean helped the family by delivering eggs and her mother's homemade bread.
"Mother couldn't afford apples and oranges and all the fruits so my brother went around the back lanes where the rich people lived and put a wagon together," she said. A local store owner took to her brother with his wagon fashioned of scraps and gave him fruit destined for the trash.
As they got older, Jean and Carol babysat for a quarter and began cleaning the home of a wealthy store owner. She was disappointed with her earnings as she presented them to her mother. Anna would coo, "This will buy us five loaves of bread! It's OK Jenny. Things will get better." Jean vividly recalls the day a newspaper paper landed on the veranda. Its stark black headline read, "War is Coming." That was 1939 and a time of anxiety as her brothers Mike and Carl headed to war.
At 18, she travelled to Vancouver to live with an aunt who said, "Jean, you'd better come live with me. The place is full of Americans."
She took a job in the lady's fashion department of the Hudson Bay Company and became fast friends with a girl named Molly. They lunched together at the Georgia Hotel. In fact, it was Molly who suggested applying for jobs in the Canadian Women's Army Corp (CWAC).
There was a wall between them but when the door swung open a young officer in uniform tipped his drink to her by way of a salute during one of their lunches. That young man was Ivan Everingham. Jean was not impressed. A second sighting took place when the young men offered to escort the women to their destination. They declined. A third, as the men wandered through the ladies fashion section of the Hudson Bay Company. They appeared to be looking for something or someone.
At the time, Ivan was a bombardier protecting Canada's Pacific Coast. She may have been unimpressed when he flirtatiously raised his glass but she giggles when she thinks of the first time she saw him in his uniform cap, "I loved that." Her career in the CWAC took her to Camp Borden and the couple met weekends. He proposed at the Royal York Hotel after a three-month courtship and with war still raging the were wed in 1944.
They lived in Toronto and were happy. Ivan became a master plumber and later took a job working for the City of Etobicoke. They had three children, Donna, Christopher and Sharon. "My children are my legacy," she said. Jean worked for 20 years in the women's fashion department at the Toronto Eatons store before retiring at the age of 65. She put her retail experience to good use volunteering at the hospital gift store in Mississauga.
The couple moved to Muskoka. Ivan died in 2010 at the Pines Retirement Residence. They had had a long, loving and happy marriage and Jean looks back on her life with fondness and gratitude. "I am a happy person. I don't like to be gloomy and, if I am, I say, 'I hope I'm here tomorrow, God,'" she said.