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- Bio: The memorial service for Vivian Likness, 96, will be Friday, June 15, at United Methodist Church of Britton, with Rev. Kris Mutzenberger officiating.
Private family inurnment of her cremains will be in the Nidaros Cemetery of rural Veblen. Arrangements are under the direction of the Price Funeral Chapel, Britton.
She died Saturday, June 9, 2007, at Sundial Manor in Bristol.
Vivian Virginia Langford was born March 7, 1911, at Omaha, NE, to Thomas and Marion (Reed) Langford. She began her education in Omaha and then moved as a teenager with her family to the Veblen area, where her folks owned and operated a bakery. She continued her education in the Veblen schools, where she was a part of the girls' basketball team. She also worked at the bakery.
On July 5, 1928, she married Lawrence Likness at Wayne, NE. They lived on a farm near Veblen for a number of years. There she raised her family of six children and performed all of the duties of an early farm wife. Later, they lived on various farms in the area before retiring to Britton in the late 1970's.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Britton. Lawrence died August 26, 1984, and Vivian continued to make her home in Britton.
She enjoyed baking and was famous for her homemade bread, flowers, and sewing. She sewed many of her Christmas gifts that she gave to friends and family. She was well known for sewing Cabbage Patch Kids, teddy bears, and Care Bears, as well as complete costumes for many of the dolls that she also made. When kids would have a dolly or teddy bear that needed mending, "Grandma Vivian" (as she was known not only to her grandkids, but many in the community as well) would mend them with her special "surgeries." At the age of 88, she even sewed a wedding dress for one of her granddaughters.
Survivors include a son and three daughters, Lawrence T. "Larry" (Pat) Likness, Jr., Colorado Springs, CO; Marjorie Hagenson, Britton; Betty (Dean) Stabnow, Britton; and Virginia Likness, Aberdeen; 14 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; 35 great-great-grandchildren; and one great-great-great-grandson.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three sons, one as an infant; a granddaughter; a grandson; and two brothers.
- Marshall County Journal June 13, 2007
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1911 - 2007 (96 år)
