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Evelyn Brennan Culver, the daughter of a Bridgehampton potato farming family, died at her Southampton home, surrounded by her family. She was 95.
Known to friends and family as “Ebby,” she made her life’s work tending to children—initially as a baby nurse and later as a nursery school teacher, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Born on February 1, 1923, to Joseph Brennan and Dorothy Hedges Brennan, she attended the Bridgehampton School and, in 1944, earned a nursing degree at the Babies Hospital of the City of New York Nursing School.
After a brief stint as a professional baby nurse in Manhattan she returned to the East End to teach at the nursery school headquartered in the Southampton Presbyterian Church.
In 1947 she married William White Culver of Southampton, a local carpenter and World War II Army Air Corps veteran. The two lived in the Culver family home on Ox Pasture Road for 10 years, where they had two sons, and then built and moved into a home on Corrigan Street, where he died in March 2016, and she died on October 30.
In describing Mrs. Culver, friends and relatives cite her sweet nature, outgoing personality, lively sense of humor and delight in getting together with good friends.
They fondly recall the wonderful dinners she prepared with the ingredients provided by her duck-hunter, fisherman husband, as well as the childhood memories she shared of horseback rides with her parents, brother and sisters after Sunday Mass, and overnight camp-outs on the beach with her school friends.
Mrs. Culver is survived by two sons, Bill and wife Pamela, and Peter and wife Carmel; four grandchildren, Kristy Howell and husband Ed, and Kathleen, PJ and Travis Culver; and four great-grandchildren, Kyla Culver, and Sienna, Brennan and Halle Howell.
She was predeceased by her two sisters, Mildred Conklin and Mary Keating; and her brother Joseph “Jody” Brennan.
A funeral Mass was held on November 2 at the Basilica of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, with the Rev. Michael Ventrano officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to East End Hospice, Box 1048, Westhampton Beach, N.Y. 11978-7048.
on Dec 7, 2018