Resident of Danville

Eileen passed away in April, 2025, happy to be with her Lord and Savior, joining her beloved husband, George (Buzz) Birdsong, who died in her arms July 2004.

She was born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada to George and Phyllis Tyerman, and lived a proud Canadian citizen all her life In the mid-1950's she went to work for the Canadian Defense Department, International Geophysical Year in the Canadian Arctic on the shores of the Hudson Bay.

She spent five years there.

Leaving the Arctic as a U.S. military wife, she then lived in Columbus and Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Meade, Laurel and Glen Burnie, Maryland; Leavenworth, Kansas; Alexandria, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; El Paso and Fort Bliss, Texas; Peitou, Taiwan; and Bangkok, Thailand. Some other places she later called "home" were Omaha, Nebraska; East Lansing, Michigan; and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

She lived in Taiwan for five years. Studied Mandarin Chinese and taught conversational English to General Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang military officers.

In 1965, she returned to Washington, D.C. In 1970, she went back to northern Manitoba to work again for the Canadian government. This time coordinating and facilitating dental treatment to Indians and Inuits. Traveling to widespread camps with bush pilots, Royal Canadian Mounties' planes, float planes, canoes and snow mobiles, as well as trekking many miles both summer and winter.

In 1976, while living in East Lansing, Michigan she married Colonel George Birdsong at Selfridge, AFB. In 1979, they moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where they lived until September of 1981, when they moved to Pleasanton, California. Eileen worked for a prestigious law firm until she retired in 1994.

As amember of the Victorian Royal Golf Club, and then Castlewood County Club, she spent many happy hours golfing with her husband. An avid reader, Eileen also volunteered at the Livermore Veteran's Hospital and Camp Parks with recent returnees and World War Il veterans.

In 2005, as the daughter of a policeman, niece and cousin to numerous policemen and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, she had a great and instructive time taking the Pleasanton Civil Police Academy Courses.

Having spent many years living in the outdoors, Eileen had a very special love of nature flora and fauna ,tame and wild. She enjoyed being a member of the bird watching club and California Wild Flower club walking for miles with books and binoculars., She is blessed and survived by four loving step children and their families: George, III, Jacqueline and Anne Birdsong of California Deceased Bill and his wife Helen of Monterey, California; and Amy of California, Marguerite of Portland, Oregon.

A member of Christ Church in Pleasanton, Eileen was happy to worship there with fellow Christians. At her request, no ceremony is planned. Her ashes will be interred with her husband's in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in Me will live, even if he dies. John 11:24