Evelyn Irene Veronica Morrissey Bloomer was born in the lower part of Manhattan on July 9, 1923. Her first-generation immigrant parents were an unusual mix of religion and ethnicity: her father was an Irish New York City police officer, and her mother was Swedish and Finnish.

The family moved to the Bronx when Evelyn was around 2 years old. From the age of two years, Evelyn grew up in the Bronx until her father bought a piece of a former farm in Bayside, Queens. Her parents lived out the rest of their lives in Bayside, but Evelyn had other plans.

She attended Walton High School from which she graduated with honors as class salutatorian. This honor was repeated both by her daughter Barbara (salutatorian Catholic High School '76) and granddaughter Deirdre (salutatorian Bay View High '02). Evelyn was quite proud of this history.

After Walton High, Evelyn went to all-female Hunter College, part of the City Colleges of New York. She majored in General Business. After graduation she worked for an employment agency where her supervisor had a contact with the international accounting firm of Price Waterhouse (now PWC). Evelyn was part of the wave of women entering the workforce during WWII. She worked in PW's Manhattan office off Wall Street, and began studying for her Masters, which at the time was needed for a NY CPA license. After the war, she continued at PW in a time when the women auditors were not allowed to travel out of town and male colleagues would walk her to the subway as women were not allowed to work overtime.

Her fiancé Donald Bloomer had joined a Marine Corps aviation squadron in the Pacific theatre. They were married in 1947 and Evelyn gave up this first career to start the career she was most proud of--that of being a Marine officer's wife and mother of their growing family. She wasn't able to work as they changed duty stations quite often, but Evelyn concentrated on raising their seven children. She returned to work when her youngest son began grade school, finding employment at Sears Roebuck in Pensacola. She worked her way up to the auditing team and retired from Sears after 20 years of employment.

In retirement, she and husband Don began a new life as farmers in Elberta, Alabama. Evelyn remained active volunteering to knit for preemies in the local hospital as an example of her civic volunteer activities groups. She was active in the church at St. Joseph's in Lillian, AL. She hosted the annual Kiwanis junior fishing rodeo with Don on their farm and she loved to see the young children fishing from their pond.

They enjoyed this life until they reached age 92, when it dawned on both of them that they were too old to be farmers. It was time to really retire. They moved to Pensacola. Don died in August 2018 and Evelyn died on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022.

Besides her husband, Evelyn is preceded in death by her sons, Timothy Matthew and Michael Francis; her sister, Patricia; and her brother, James.

Surviving Evelyn are her children, James (Sandy and three sons), Thomas (Mary, one son and four daughters) Donna Mary, Barbara (Paul, two sons and one daughter) and Christopher (Andrea, one daughter and two sons), her sister Judith Ann, nephews James Morrissey and Kurt Watzek, nieces Valerie Hunt and Christine Snyder as well as 16 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be held 2:00pm-7:00pm Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at Harper-Morris Memorial Chapel with a Rosary at 2:00pm and a final Rosary at 6:45pm. The Requiem Mass will be held 10:00am Thursday, April 21, 2022, at St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church and the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, with the Very Rev. Canon Hector R. G. Perez, STD, CSL.J celebrant. Burial will follow at Prince of Peace Cemetery in Elberta, AL.

The family wishes to thank the very caring team of caregivers from West Florida Home Care Services- Patrice, Elaine, Barbara and Sandy. And they give special thanks to longtime family friend and RN Marie Groh who made Evelyn's last years as comfortable and pleasant as can be desired.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Pensacola Catholic High School, to which Evelyn sent all seven children for all four years. Evelyn's theory of education was that she and Don would pay for a Catholic education from elementary grades through high school, but each child had to pay for college on his/her own. She was quite proud of having managed the family finances to enable their children to receive a Catholic education. If you asked her what her proudest accomplishment was, she would point to pictures of her seven children. Rest in peace, Mama.