Daughter of Edward and Rebecca Martha
Evelyn spent much of her young life assisting her sister Violet Crowley (nee Simshauser) with caring for her young family – Daphne, Joyce, Betty and Bruce. She was very good with them and they all liked her. Evelyn supervised correspondence lessons for Daphne and Joyce. For her own education she attended Paleroo School.
In 1938 Evelyn married Frank Thrift and they lived at Bendemeer where Frank had a small farm. Evelyn and Frank had two children – John, and a baby who died at birth. Evelyn lived a relatively short life. She was born on 14 September 1915 and at 34 years of age she died at Tamworth.