Evon Agnes "Tiny" Beaulieu, age 72, of Red
Lake, MN, died Sunday, July 10, 2005 at St. Mary?s
Hospital in Duluth, MN. Burial will be in St. Mary's CatholicCemetery, RedLake, under the direction of the
Olson-Schwartz Funeral Home, Bemidji.
Casket
bearers will be Evon's sons, Harlan, Adrian, Oran, Tim, Leo and
Oliver. Honorary bearers will be June Maxwell, Lorraine Chaboyea,
Sharon Schoenborn Stately, Melvina
Johnson, Diane Roy and Agnes King.
EvonNeadeau was born to
Timothy and Olive Neadeau on July 20, 1932. She
married Roman A. Beaulieu on June 29, 1949. They had ten children together. All
ten were high school graduates and five graduated with four-year college degrees. With ten children in the first ten years of
marriage, Evon had her hands full being a full time
mother. She still found time to run the family commercial fishing business and
participated in the family convenience store business.
She
had a number of jobs working for the Red Lake Tribe. She worked with the
Community Action Program as a Home Maker, Extension Worker, Save the Children
Coordinator, and as a member of the original Red Lake Fish Fry Committee. She
was hired by the tribe to work for the Red Lake Indian Drug Prevention Program
on July 30, 1973 as the Little Rock Prevention Specialist. She loved this job
and never resigned from the Indian and Drug Prevention Program in hopes that
she would one day return to work.
Evon is survived by Roman, her loving husband of 56
years; three daughters: Norine (Paul) Smith, Red
Lake, Gwen (Percy) Spears, Savage, MN, and Harlene
(Marlon) Blue, Red Lake; six sons: Harlan (Linda) Beaulieu, Adrian (Karen)
Beaulieu, Oran (Cheryl) Beaulieu, Timothy (Della) Beaulieu, Leo Beaulieu and
Oliver (Elizabeth) Beaulieu, all of Red Lake; 25 grandchildren and 17 great
grandchildren. Evon and Roman raised one
granddaughter, Lilah Joy Beaulieu (Derek) as their
own. She never stopped being a mother. She loved spending time with her
children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
Evon was preceded in death by her parents, Timothy and
Olive Neadeau, and one daughter, Willa Beaulieu
(2002).
