Mrs EEI Carlyon
Camborne
THE FUNERAL service for Elvera (Elva) Carlyon, aged 87, of Camborne, and formerly of St Blazey, was held at Glynn Valley Crematorium, Bodmin, on May 8.
David Michael officiated.
Elva was born on November 19, 1926, in Marylebone, London, where she lived until she was 13.
She was evacuated to relatives in Bodelva when the Second World War began and the Blitz made London unsafe.
It was in St Blazey that she met and married Trevor; a marriage that lasted until Trevor's death in 1996.
A dressmaker by trade, Elva made many pairs of curtains for Rice's of Camborne when the family moved to the town.
Always thinking of other people, Elva looked after several elderly family members over the years and always had time for a chat.
She will be missed.
Family mourners: Ann Thomas, daughter; David Thomas, son-in-law; Rachel Ganuszko, granddaughter, and her husband Paul; Brian and Pat Haberland, brother and sister-in-law; Mark and Simon Haberland, nephews, and their wives Tanya and Sarah; Claire Orme and Lesley Carlyon, cousins; Derek and Barbara Masters, Dougie Bone; friend Dawn Clemow.
Unable to attend: Valerie and Paul Wicks, Ernestine Carlyon, Sylvia Bone, David Clemow, Joyce Bawden, Caroline Abbott-Smith, Beryl Kimberley.
A retiring collection was held for donations in Elva's memory for the Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust, which amounted to £59.15.
Funeral arrangements were carried out by Mrs Stacey Lambert, of Paul Bourton Funeral Service, St Austell.
