Rita M. Everix

Rita M. Everix passed away on March 12, 2025 at Sharon S. Richardson hospice facility in Sheboygan Falls surrounded by family. She was born on June 22, 1936 at Saint Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac to Victor and Katherine (Harlow) Everix of Chilton, WI. Rita graduated from Saint Augustine‘s Catholic School and Chilton High School. After graduation, she completed a business course in Appleton. She left Chilton and worked for Selective Service in Milwaukee, Veterans Administration in Los Angeles and she spent time working in England at a bed and breakfast.

Rita was a person of faith where church, confession, and the Holy Eucharist were fundamental in her Catholic beliefs. Her favorite television channel was EWTN. She worshiped Holy Water particularly from Lourdes and was delighted to gift it to family and friends. She was known in the family for her spaghetti sauce, brownies, hot fudge for sundaes, and homemade cough syrup. Her cooking and baking were savored by many. She adored musicals, comedies and plays. Before moving to California, she spent time with her nieces and nephews buying them gifts, playing games and cherished her time with them. Rita was fond of wholesome movies, but she had to rely on other people when her vision declined and she was no longer able to drive. She loved to read and was an avid sports fan, particularly Brewers baseball and Packers football.

Rita also enjoyed traveling. She liked driving trips around California to see sights and visit family. While on a trip to Washington D.C. with Pauline and their mothers they went to the Naval Academy in style. The tour bus forgot to pick them up so they sent a limousine that took them to all the stops at the Academy. In 2003, she traveled to Ireland with her siblings Dorothy and Emil. A highlight was spending time at the Shrine to Our Lady of Knock where she went to Mass and received Holy Communion. She also enjoyed being in the town where the Quiet Man movie was filmed.

Survivors include her sister, Mary Verch; brother Emil (Pauline) Everix; and sister-in-law, Kathleen Everix, as well as nephews Darren (Theresa) Lindstrom, David Lindstrom, Perry (Dawn) Everix, Andrew (Sheena) Everix; nieces Dawn (Stan Brill) Everix, Donna (Tamas) Everix, Lisa (Joseph) Henning, Kathryn (Ryan) Groff, Emily (Jeff) Rech and Victoria Everix. She has many great nieces and nephews as well. Also surviving are her close friends, Anna Calzada, Ashley Hill, Kathryn Pavlich, Jan Stone, Margaret Wang Bales, Steve Thomas and Toni Becker.

She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers Jerome Everix and Donald Everix, her sister Dorothy Lindstrom, brothers-in-laws Roy Verch and Gerald Lindstrom, sister-in-law Alyce Everix, nephew Danny Everix and niece Doreen Lindstrom.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at St. Dominic‘s Catholic Church in Sheboygan at 12:00PM. The family will greet relatives and friends from 10:00AM until the Mass begins at the church. The rosary will be recited at 11:00AM. She will be in inurned at Saint Augustine’s Cemetery in Chilton on Monday, April 7, 2025 at 11:00AM.