Visitation, Service for Eveline Toth

Eveline Irene Niedzwiecki Toth passed away peacefully on July 31, 2015 at Calvary Hospital in Bronx, NY after a yearlong battle with cancer, she was 82.

Eveline was born on July 19, 1933 in Providence RI, beloved only child of Mary (Kodzis) and Walter Niedzwiecki. A child of Polish immigrants she grew up in Providence’s vibrant Polish community surrounded by family and friends. She attended Providence High School and upon graduation enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1955, Eveline left her beloved home and parents to pursue her career in fashion design in Boston MA. In Boston she met her husband Miklos. They married in 1962 and eventually settled in Sherborn MA where the two built their dream home together.

For much of her life Eveline focused all of her energies on her family and home. Once she married Miklos, an immigrant from Hungary, she felt it necessary to master the Hungarian language before her in-laws began visiting from the old country. Eveline became conversationally fluent in Hungarian over the years, and also mastered Hungarian cuisine in an effort to sooth her husband’s home-sick palate.

Having left her career behind to focus her energies on motherhood, Eveline studied the art of fine cooking, was a manic gardener (as a child of the Victory garden era, she tended an extensive vegetable garden for much of her life), a voracious reader and kept up with her love of painting, producing many works in her chosen medium of oils. She additionally took out her many creative passions sewing for family, including creating a rather large and eclectic wardrobe for her young daughter and three piece suits for her husband.

In addition to her husband and children Eveline was a great lover of animals. She cherished many cats and dogs throughout her life; in particular her final beloved dog Mitzi who was her faithful companion after Miklos became ill with dementia.

A proud daughter of Polish immigrants, Eveline remained active in the Polish community attending her daughters’ performances with the Krakowiak Polish Dancers of Boston, and later joining the group herself as a member of the Krakowiak Folk Singers. While with the Folk Singers, Eveline had the opportunity to visit her parents’ homeland for the first time in 1980, and once again in 1983. As part of the 1983 tour, Eveline and her daughter were honored to attend a sunrise Mass at the Vatican given by His Holiness Pope John Paul II.

In her later years Eveline returned to the workforce, taking a job at the Fabric Place in 1983. There Eveline made many lifelong friends and was able to indulge her passion for fabric.

Eveline was a 40 year member of St. Theresa’s Parish in Sherborn. Over the years she and Miklos became friends with Fr. John O’Connor their beloved pastor. He was a frequent dinner guest at their house, and Fr. O’Connor often called on Eveline to prepare food for various Church functions.

After many years of nursing Miklos through the early stages of his dementia, the time came on 2011 that he required care in a nursing home. In 2012 Eveline sold their cherished home in Sherborn, found appropriate care for Miklos in New York, and moved herself to Brewster to be closer to her daughter and young granddaughter. She was devastated to lose the love of her life in 2014.

In 2014 Eveline was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, her doctors told her she didn’t have very much longer to live. Eveline took this news in stride, she considered that she had lived a long and wonderful life and the ending was of course in God’s hands. She did not waste any time contemplating her illness but instead chose to enjoy each of the days she had left to the fullest, peaceful in the embrace of her loving family and the beauty of the world.

Eveline is survived by her son Miklos Toth Jr. and his sons Miklos III, Joseph, Kristof and Adam as well as by her daughter Ildi and her husband Bob and their daughter Katherine.

Arrangements by Beecher Funeral Home, 1 Putnam Avenue, Brewster, NY. Calling hours will be on August 14th, from 7 – 9 PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Lawrence O’Toole Church, 21 Prospect St. Brewster, NY at 10:30 AM on August 15th.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Eveline’s name to Calvary Hospital at www.calvaryhospital.org under the tab “Make a Gift”.