Monday 15 August 2016

Evelyn Mary Gordon Pangman 1926 - 2016

Evelyn Pangman who died on April 12, 2016, in Canada aged 90 was the younger daughter of Sydney and Margaret Saunders. Margaret, was the only child of James Cholmeley Russell and his wife Eleanor. She married Sidney Saunders in 1919 and their first daughter Elizabeth, always known as Betty, was born in 1922, she died a spinster in 1998. Evelyn was born in 1926 and grew up in Surrey, never knowing her father, who had died before she was born. Towards the end of the Second World War Evelyn met and married Peter Pangman a Canadian Navy Officer stationed in England. They subsequently moved to Canada. Peter died in the 1990s.
Evelyn had recently enjoyed her 90th birthday and is happily remembered by son Michael, daughter Wendy, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.