'Aunt Eve' Celebrates 95th Birthday

Article and photo published by Snoqualmie Valley Record on Thursday, October 22, 1970 about Aunt Eve Chisholm on her 95th birthday.

'Aunt Eve' Celebrates 95th Birthday

Mrs. Eva Chisholm or "Aunt Eve" as she is known to many people in the Valley says she never paid much attention to birthdays until lately, but that was probably before her 90th birthday five years ago.

On October 24, Aunt Eve will be 95 years old, yet still active, alert and participating fully in the world around her, with definite opinions about that world. She keeps up with current events offers her comments on some of the problems in the country today.

She has changed her opinions somewhat about young people, although she thinks there are many wonderful young people. "I think the young people are lost. They are very unsatisfied, and they want to improve the world and their living, but they don't seem to know how. I think they need a little more religion," she says.

About the parents she says, "I think the mothers neglect their children. They work, and their children just run wild."

Aunt Eve says of her age group, "I guess the old people are something like I am. They have a problem of living and where to live. It used to be that their children took care of them. Now the children work and can't take care of them and they have to go to these old people's homes among strangers."

Mrs. Chisholm keeps house in a two room cottage near her nephew Jack Chisholm and his family. She cooks her own meals and says she especially enjoyed having ten of her relatives over last week for dinner.

"I just put up a lot of little teevee trays, but they like it in the summer because we can eat outdoors then," she says.

Born in Illinois, she went to Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, Canada, as a young girl where she took Canadian citizenship, went to school, and worked in a restaurant where she met her husband who was a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. They left Canada for Seattle, where Mr. Chisholm worked in a tannery before they moved to the Valley.

"We had a ranch, and my husband was logging on the hill. Later we went into the dairy business down in the Valley," she recalls. "There were just a few houses along the street here and no Spring Glen Community. Fall City has built up a lot, too."

Over the years Aunt Eve has been a source of stories, solace, advice, and help to her neighbors and friends. She still helps others by making doll clothes for the Children's Orthopedic Hospital.

"I don't know how many thousands of doll dresses she's made," says Mrs. Jack Chisholm, wife of her nephew.

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