Obituary of Ann Evers-Spodnik DR

Dr. Ann Evers Spodnik died on October 24, 2010, in her Milford, Connecticut, home, from complications of breast cancer. Dr. Evers was born November 17, 1949, in St. Paul, Minnesota. She grew up and was educated in Toledo, Ohio. She graduated from St. Ursula Academy, in Toledo, and received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Toledo. An honors graduate of the University of Toledo Medical School, she was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Society. Ann was proud to be the fifth generation of physicians on the maternal Mueller side of her family. She served her internship, residency and graduate fellowship at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and was board-certified in internal medicine, emergency room medicine and rheumatology. For a time, she was on the faculty in emergency medicine and internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In recent years, Dr. Evers worked as an emergency room physician in Iowa, Illinois, Connecticut and Florida. She was a lifelong genealogist who traveled extensively throughout Europe in tracing her ancestors — the Mueller, Evers, Cunningham and Faha families. She compiled a detailed documentation of the history of the four families dating back to the late 1600s. She is survived by her husband, Mark Spodnik, of Milford, Connecticut; her parents, Dr. Robert and Betty Evers, of Vero Beach, Florida; two brothers, Dr. Bob (Anne) Evers, of Park City, Utah, and James (Gail) Evers, of Honolulu, Hawaii; a sister, Mari (Dr. Randy) Koepke, of Toledo, Ohio; father-in-law and mother-in-law Kenneth and Margaret Spodnik, of Milford; brother-in-law and sister-in-law Kenneth and Patricia Spodnik, of Milford; two nephews, Cody (Veronica) Evers, of Oregon, and Race Evers, of Honolulu; five nieces, Erin (Braden) Meason of Colorado, Amra Evers, of Honolulu, Nadea Evers of Malaysia, and Caroline and Elizabeth Spodnik, of Milford, and a friend and cousin, Karolyn Schuster Harwood, of Woodbridge, Connecticut. Friends may greet the family on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 from 4-7pm in the Adzima Funeral Home 50 Paradise Green Place Stratford. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Francis Xavier Basilica, in Dyersville, Iowa, and burial will be in St. Francis Cemetery, also in Dyersville, in the Mueller family plot. The family requests that memorials be made to Doctors Without Borders online at www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate or by mail at Doctors Without Borders USA, P.O. Box 5030, Hagerstown, Md. 21741. The family also wishes to extend its appreciation to the staff of both Yale New Haven Oncology Department and Connecticut Hospice for their dedicated and compassionate care of Ann.