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Evelyn Chalmers

Evelyn Chalmers is recorded in 4 distinct stories.

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Aunt Evvie is remembered as an older Castle Rock woman, Polly Chalmers’ relative and benefactor, and is depicted helping the child narrator in The Body. Castle Rock’s elderly Evelyn Chalmers is explicitly called Aunt Evvie in both accounts; Needful Things places her in Polly’s family memories. Castle Rock's oldest resident, explicitly named Evelyn and called Aunt Evvie.

Also recorded as Aunt Evvie, Evvie, Evvie Chalmers.

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Cujo

Mentioned in the story

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Dr. Quentin would tell him he was farting a lot because he was getting older and that was it. Aunt Evvie Chalmers's death that late spring had hit George hard - harder than he ever would have believed - and just lately he didn't like to think about getting older.

Bannerman recalls Aunt Evvie’s recent death.

Cujo ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King
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The oldest living person in Castle Rock that late spring was Evelyn Chalmers, known as Aunt Evvie by the town's older residents, known as 'that old loudmouth bitch' by George Meara, who had to deliver her mail -' which mostly consisted of catalogues and offers from the Reader's Digest and prayer folders from the Crusade of the Eternal Christ -' and listen to her endless monologues.

Castle Rock’s oldest resident Evelyn Chalmers is identified by the nickname Aunt Evvie.

Cujo ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King

Needful Things

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Although no one knew for certain, it seemed likely that she had used Aunt Evvie Chalmers’s money to fund the new venture. Who else would that crazy old rip have left it to?

Town gossip connects Polly’s sewing shop funds to Aunt Evvie’s estate.

Needful Things ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King
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Aunt Evvie waits for Polly to regain control after crying; the passage explicitly supplies Evelyn Chalmers as her full name.

Needful Things ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King

The Body

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I curled up on the sidewall, crying. Aunt Evvie Chalmers came down her walk, thudding her cane angrily as she came. She asked me if I needed the doctor. I sat up and managed to stop most of the crying.

Evvie comes down her walk with a cane and asks the injured child whether he needs a doctor.

The Body ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King Collected in Different Seasons

The Sun Dog

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… until earlier that year, Nan’s Luncheonette, and You Sew and Sew, the dress-and-notions shop run by Evvie Chalmers’s great-granddaughter, Polly—a woman of whom we must speak at another time. There were slant-parking spaces in front of all the shops on Lower Main …

The narrator explicitly identifies Polly as Evvie’s great-granddaughter.

The Sun Dog ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King Collected in Four Past Midnight